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CERN: new edition of the Collide International award in partnership with UK’s leading media arts centre Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT)

PRESS RELEASE -- 19, December 2017

GENEVA/LIVERPOOL, 19-Dec-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Today (18 Dec 2017), Arts at CERN has announced a new edition of the Collide International award, in partnership with the UK’s leading media arts centre, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology). The competition is … Read the full press release

New CERN-MEDICIS facility produces its first radioisotopes for medical research to diagnose cancers

PRESS RELEASE -- 14, December 2017

GENEVA, 14-Dec-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Today (12 Dec 2017), the new CERN-MEDICIS facility has produced radioisotopes for medical research for the first time. MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) aims to provide a wide range of radioisotopes, some of which can … Read the full press release

University of Freiburg: strong evidence that the Higgs particle decays into quarks

PRESS RELEASE -- 19, July 2017

Research group at the University of Freiburg contribute significant new findings to the ATLAS experiment FREIBURG, 19-Jul-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — As part of the ATLAS collaboration, the Freiburg research group led by Prof. Dr. Karl Jakobs and Dr. Christian Weiser has contributed to finding strong … Read the full press release

Lithuania joins CERN as an Associate Member

PRESS RELEASE -- 29, June 2017

VILNIUS, 29-Jun-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Today (27 June 2017), in Vilnius, Lithuania, CERN Director General, Fabiola Gianotti, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius, in the presence of the President of the Republic of Lithuania, … Read the full press release

His Majesty King Abdullah II opens the SESAME light source, the first regional laboratory for the Middle East

PRESS RELEASE -- 18, May 2017

Allan, Jordan, 18-May-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — The SESAME light source was today officially opened by His Majesty King Abdullah II. An intergovernmental organization, SESAME is the first regional laboratory for the Middle East and neighbouring regions The laboratory’s official opening ushers … Read the full press release

ALICE collaboration: proton collisions sometimes present similar patterns to those observed in the collisions of heavy nuclei

PRESS RELEASE -- 27, April 2017

GENEVA, 27-Apr-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — In a paper published today in Nature Physics (link is external), the ALICE collaboration reports that proton collisions sometimes present similar patterns to those observed in the collisions of heavy nuclei. This behaviour was spotted through … Read the full press release

Work underway for brand-new Esplanade des Particules, Europe’s leading laboratory for particle physics

PRESS RELEASE -- 5, April 2017

Joint press release by: the Department of the Environment, Transport and Agriculture, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the Commune de Meyrin GENEVA, 05-Apr-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — The Etat de Genève and CERN are today announcing the imminent start of … Read the full press release

BASE collaboration at CERN reports most precise measurement ever made of the magnetic moment of the antiproton

PRESS RELEASE -- 18, January 2017

GENEVA, 18-Jan-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — In a paper published today in the journal Nature Communications, the BASE collaboration at CERN1 reports the most precise measurement ever made of the magnetic moment of the antiproton, allowing a fundamental comparison between matter and … Read the full press release

Arts at CERN and FACT call on artists to enter submissions for the COLLIDE International Award

PRESS RELEASE -- 18, January 2017

Geneva/ Liverpool, 18-Jan-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Today (16 January 2017) Arts at CERN and FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) announce its international call for artists to enter submissions for the COLLIDE International Award. This is the second year of this … Read the full press release