Category: 2026
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Two artists, two scientific worlds: Arts at CERN announces the artists for the 2026 Connect India residency
Marie Matusz and Moonis Ahmad Shah have been selected for the 2026 Connect India residency, where they’ll split their time between CERN’s particle physics laboratories and the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) in Bengaluru. From detection technologies to mathematical thresholds, they’ll explore how science observes the invisible and transform those encounters into new artistic…
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Results are in: Beamline for Schools 2026 winners announced
Students from Bangladesh, India, Türkiye, the UK and the USA win the 13th edition of Beamline for Schools Five teams of secondary school pupils have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams at CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn The winners of the 13th edition of the Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition…
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Meet Sergio: a non-Member State PhD student working on the LHCb collaboration
Sergio, from Colombia, is completing a PhD on the LHCb Collaboration at CERN through the non-Member State PhD Studentship. His research focuses on heavy flavour physics and particularly, the production of charm and bottom quarks. Sergio was just entering university when the Higgs Boson was discovered and as a first-year student of physics, he remembers…
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Hands-On Physics: teacher training programme wraps up with excellent results
The final edition of the Hands-on Physics (HOP) programme took place in April, concluding a three-year project which has reached 19 locations and trained 2,100 teachers in total across Italy. Hands-On Physics provides an inquiry-based learning approach for middle school teachers to use in their classrooms. The aim of the project is to provide practical…
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LinkedIn Newsletter: Time to create impact with TIMEPIX@school
“I used the Minipix detector two years ago in a physics project in which I studied the relation between the absorption of alpha radiation and the pressure of the chamber. This helped me a lot to decide what I wanted to study because it made me realise how real physics works and how a real…
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Arts at CERN and Nobel Prize Museum announce the Collide Stockholm international residency award recipient
Arts at CERN and the Nobel Prize Museum have announced that Emilija Škarnulytė is the Collide Stockholm residency award recipient. Škarnulytė will spend one month at CERN followed by one month at the Nobel Prize Museum to develop a new artwork with the support of the curatorial teams of both institutions. The jury also decided…
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If the future doesn’t exist, create it
If the future doesn’t exist, create it CERN’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), Enrica Porcari, has chosen to donate all proceeds raised from sales of her autobiography, Il futuro che non c’era, to support teachers from her native Italy to attend the CERN National Teacher Programme Il futuro che non c’era opens with Enrica Porcari receiving…
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From lab to clinic: CERN-MEDICIS update
CERN’s MEDICIS facility is contributing to the advancement of nuclear medicine by producing unconventional radionuclides for diagnosis and targeted therapy against tumours and other diseases. Radionuclides – atoms with either an excess or deficiency of neutrons – play an essential role in medical imaging and in delivering highly localised radiation to eliminate malignant cells while sparing…
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Back with a bang! CERN Festival Programme 2026
Summer is just around the corner … and so is the CERN Festival Programme. Between performances, this year music festival-goers encountered science somewhat earlier than usual, with science stage Quantum Corral arriving to LUCK Reunion Festival in Texas late March. On this year’s programme: Musical performances! Including one between Micah Nelson, his band and CERN CMS physicist Dr Larry…
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LinkedIn Newsletter: Women in Science March Forward
Diversity drives discovery. When we broaden access to scientific education and research, we unlock new ideas, perspectives and solutions to the world’s most complex challenges. In March, the world celebrated International Women’s Day – a fitting moment to honour inspiring women at the heart of CERN & Society Foundation projects. Non-member State Summer Student Programme…