science wire

Geneva, 17 October 2013. CERN is to host the Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13 on 27-31 October, 2013.

Geneva 8 October 2013.

Geneva, 6 October 2013. In a paper published today ( http://dx.doi.org/ , DOI number 10.1038/nature12663), the CLOUD experiment at CERN reports a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in climate science: how do aerosols - tiny solid or liquid particles suspended in the air - form in the atmosphere, and which gases are responsible? This is a key question in understanding the climate, since aerosols cause a cooling effect by reflecting sunlight and by seeding cloud droplets.

Geneva, 4 October 2013. Seeing the invisible and discovering the meaning of life are the twin quests of CERN 's first film maker in residence, Jan Peters the second winner of the Collide@CERN Geneva 2 prize, which is supported by the Canton and City of Geneva.

Geneva 3 October 2013. CERN Director General Rolf Heuer and Mr. Kostyantyn Ivanovych Gryschenko, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine today signed a document admitting Ukraine to CERN Associate Membership, subject to ratification by Ukraine's Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada.

Geneva, 19 July 2013. New results to be presented at the EPS-HEP conference in Stockholm, Sweden, this afternoon have put the Standard Model of particle physics to one of its most stringent tests to date. The CMS and LHCb experiments at CERN's  Large Hadron Collider will present measurements of one of the rarest measureable processes in physics: the decay of a B s (pronounced B-sub-s) particle into two muons.

Geneva, 17 July 2013. Scientists working on CERN experiments are preparing to present their latest results at summer conferences. This year, two major conferences are coming up over the next couple of weeks: the European Physical Society's High Energy Physics conference, EPS-HEP 2013, which is being held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 18-24 July, and Strangeness in Quark Matter, SQM 2013, held in Birmingham, UK, from 22-27 July.

Geneva, 11 July 2013.

Geneva, 26 June 2013. The second winner of Prix Ars Electronica Collide @ CERN , American sound sculptor, Bill Fontana 2 , begins his arts residency at CERN 3 on 4 July 2013.

Geneva, 19 June 2013. The ISOLTRAP collaboration  has measured the mass of exotic calcium nuclei using a new instrument installed at the ISOLDE facility at CERN 2 . The measurements clearly establish a new "magic number" related to the stability of this exotic species. The results cast light on how nuclei can be described in terms of the fundamental strong force.

Geneva 13 June 2013. CERN and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics 2 today inaugurated the Hungarian data centre in Budapest, marking the completion of the facility hosting the extension for CERN computing resources.

Geneva/Linz, 3 June 2013. CERN and Ars Electronica 2 today launch an open call for artists working in the digital domain to apply for the third Prix Ars Electronica Collide @ CERN 3 .

Twenty years ago CERN published a statement that made the World Wide Web ("W3", or simply "the web") technology available on a royalty-free basis.

Geneva 3 April 2013. The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS ) today announced the first results in its search for dark matter. The results, presented by AMS spokesperson Professor Samuel Ting in a seminar at CERN 2 , are to be published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Geneva, 25 March 2013. In today's Physical Review Letters , the Antihydrogen TRAP ( ATRAP ) experiment at CERN 2 's Antiproton Decelerator ( AD ) reports a new measurement of the antiprotonmagnetic moment made with an unprecedented uncertainty of 4.4 parts per million (ppm). This result is 680 times more precise than previous measurements.

Geneva, 14 March 2013. At the Moriond Conference today, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN 's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented preliminary new results that further elucidate the particle discovered last year. Having analysed two and a half times more data than was available for the discovery announcement in July, they find that the new particle is looking more and more like a Higgs boson, the particle linked to the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles.

Geneva 1 March 2013. Experiments at CERN 's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are set to present their latest results at the Moriond conference, which begins tomorrow in the Italian town of La Thuile, and runs until 16 March. Although all of the LHC experiments will present results, eyes will be on the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, which will give updates on the analyses of the new particle whose discovery was announced last July.

Geneva 14 February 2013. At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, bringing the machine's first three-year running period to a successful conclusion. The LHC's first run has seen major advances in physics, including the discovery of a new particle that looks increasingly like the long-sought Higgs boson, announced on 4 July 2012.

Geneva, 17 December 2012. This morning CERN completed the first LHC proton run. The remarkable first three-year run of the world's most powerful particle accelerator was crowned by a new performance milestone. The space between proton bunches in the beams was halved to further increase beam intensity.

Geneva, 14 December 2012. The United Nations General Assembly in New York today adopted a resolution granting CERN observer status.

Geneva and Frankfurt, 10 October 2012. CERN is today showcasing its science at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2 .

Geneva 5 October 2012. The CERN Director-General, Rolf Heuer, and the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, George Demosthenous, today signed an agreement under which the Republic of Cyprus will become an Associate Member State in the pre-stage to Membership.

Geneva 1 October 2012. Representatives from the science funding agencies and library communities of 29 countries are meeting at CERN today to launch the SCOAP3 2 Open Access initiative.

Geneva, 20 September 2012. CERN Council today elected Professor Agnieszka Zalewska as its 21st President for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2013.

European particle physics refreshes long-term strategy Krakow, 12 September 2012. Some 500 particle physicists meeting in Krakow this week have been debating the long-term future of their field at the CERN Council Open Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics.

Geneva, 13 August 2012. Experiments using heavy ions at CERN 's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are advancing understanding of the primordial universe. The ALICE, ATLAS and CMS collaborations have made new measurements of the kind of matter that probably existed in the first instants of the universe. They will present their latest results at the Quark Matter 2012 conference, which starts today in Washington DC.

Geneva, 25 July 2012. CERN today marked the first year in space for the  Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) with a visit from the crew of the shuttle mission, STS-134 , that successfully delivered AMS to the  the  International Space Station (ISS) just over a year ago.

Geneva and Linz, 18 July 2012. CERN and Ars Electronica 2 today launch an open call for artists working in the digital domain to apply for the second Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN 3 .

Geneva, 9 July 2012.

CERN to give update on Higgs search as curtain raiser to ICHEP conference Geneva, 22 June 2012. CERN 1 will hold a scientific seminar at 9:00CEST on 4 July to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson.

CERN adopts new scheme for easy access to intellectual property Geneva, 4 June 2012.

New phase of CERN openlab to tackle exascale IT challenges for science Geneva, 9 May 2012. The fourth phase of CERN openlab was officially launched during a meeting of its board of sponsors taking place at CERN 1 on 8 and 9 May.

Geneva, 8 May 2012. CERN 1 today signed a contract with the Wigner Research Centre for Physics 2 in Budapest for an extension to the CERN data centre.

LHC physics data taking gets underway at new record collision energy of 8TeV Geneva, 5 April 2012. At 3:38 CEST this morning, the LHC shift crew declared 'stable beams' as two 4 TeV proton beams were brought into collision at the LHC's four interaction points. This signals the start of physics data taking by the LHC experiments for 2012.

CERN welcomes its first artist in residence Geneva, 12 March 2012. Creative collisions have begun at CERN 1 with the arrival of Julius von Bismarck as the laboratory's first Collide@CERN artist in residence.

Geneva, 9 March 2011. At Geneva International Airport today SRB Energy delivered the first of the solar panels that will form one of the largest solar energy systems of Switzerland.

CERN experiment makes spectroscopic measurement of antihydrogen Geneva, 7 March 2012. In a paper published online today by the journal Nature , the ALPHA collaboration at CERN 1 reports an important milestone on the way to measuring the properties of antimatter atoms. This follows news reported in June last year that the collaboration had routinely trapped antihydrogen atoms for long periods of time.

LHCb experiment squeezes the space for expected new physics Geneva, 5 March 2012. Results presented by the LHCb collaboration this evening at the annual 'Rencontres de Moriond' conference, held this year in La Thuile, Italy, have put one of the most stringent limits to date on the current theory of particle physics, the Standard Model.

Big science teams up with big business to kick-start European cloud computing Geneva, 1 March 2012. Today a consortium of leading IT providers and three of Europe's biggest research centres (CERN 1 , EMBL 2 and ESA 3 ) announced a partnership to launch a European cloud computing platform.