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Groundbreaking CMS calorimeter for the High-Luminosity LHC

CMS has recently completed the first prototype slice of its innovative High-Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL), which will be the largest silicon-based detector ever built

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Experiments
29 January, 2026
Experiments
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29 January, 2026

Heating homes with the world’s largest particle accelerator

Now operational, a new heat exchange system is reusing hot water from part of the Large Hadron Collider’s cooling system to heat homes and businesses in the local area

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At CERN
28 January, 2026

European labs get aligned at CERN

Eleven laboratories have all come to CERN to measure a girder, using their state-of-the-art equipment to establish a common definition of alignment uncertainty

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Engineering
26 January, 2026
Engineering
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26 January, 2026

Probing asteroids with particle beams

CERN’s HiRadMat facility is helping scientists to understand how asteroid materials behave under extreme conditions

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Accelerators
21 January, 2026
Accelerators
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21 January, 2026

What can you do with 380 million Higgs bosons?

The latest edition of the CERN Courier magazine explores what the High-Luminosity LHC will be able to say about the distant past and future of the Universe

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Physics
16 January, 2026

Advancing cancer therapy with next-gen radionuclides

The PRISMAP programme, coordinated by CERN, has supplied 159 radionuclide batches for cancer research over the past five years

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Knowledge sharing
13 January, 2026
Knowledge sharing
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13 January, 2026

Superconductors, an opportunity for science and society

At the ‘Catalysing impact - Superconductivity for Global Challenges’ event, stakeholders from the fields of research, industry, politics and finance discussed collaboration on superconducting technologies for the benefit of science and society

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Knowledge sharing
08 January, 2026
Knowledge sharing
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08 January, 2026

CERN wishes you a happy 2026

The new year brings new leadership, more collisions, more results and paths opening up to the future – follow CERN in 2026

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At CERN
05 January, 2026
At CERN
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05 January, 2026

CERN highlights in 2025

A look back at a year of advances in science, technology and benefits to society

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At CERN
19 December, 2025
At CERN
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19 December, 2025

Private donors pledge 860 million euros for CERN’s Future Circular Collider

A consortium of private donors (individuals and philanthropic foundations) have agreed to support the proposed Future Circular Collider at CERN

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At CERN
18 December, 2025
At CERN
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18 December, 2025