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CERN's Director General, Fabiola Gianotti (left) with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma (right). (Image: CERN) From creativity to curiosity and the wish to explore the unknown, physics and music are intrinsically linked. For one special evening held at CERN Science Gateway, world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and CERN physicist and Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti, discussed the commonalities and relations between physics and music and the human experiences of both. The duo musically demonstrated con...

In 2023, CERN celebrated a year of achievements on its journey of scientific exploration. The inauguration of CERN Science Gateway, an emblematic education and outreach centre, reflected CERN's commitment to inspiring future generations. Precision measurements took centre stage as the ATLAS experiment set records in studying the Higgs boson mass and the strong force strength. The CMS experiment presented its search for dark photons and other exotic particles and measured tau-lepton polarisa...

New results from the Rijksmuseum’s Operation Night Watch suggest that Rembrandt treated his canvas with a lead-based substance before painting the ground layer.

ONTARIO — Have you heard about Community in Actions youth center opening in Ontario? The grand opening for the center was this week, and it is already bringing food to

Laboratories could be creating life from scratch by the end of the century, according to Swiss Nobel Prize winner Didier Queloz.

In a writers’ workshop, we were given the first line to build a story on: “A bottle falls into the ocean...”. The following is the story I wrote, using my

Scientists are turning to the beautiful and famous Whirlpool Galaxy to detect areas where stars could eventually be born.

Tel Aviv University astronomical breakthrough: The history and contents of the universe can be determined using radio telescopes on the moon.


A Swiss lab has played a vital role in making sure Japans dumping of contaminated water from Fukushima plant meets international standards.

Natalia Ares from the University of Oxford presents machine learning for tackling quantum device variability at the 7th International Conference on Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning, held at CERN in November. More than 300 people attended in person, with more following online. (Image: CERN) Problem solving gets faster if quantum methodologies are used instead of classical computers. Physicists and computer scientists are therefore working closely together to explore this potential. In Novem...