Category: News
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Eleven successful years and counting for the Be a Scientist project
Eleven successful years and counting for the Be a Scientist project For 684 budding scientists from schools in the local area, the 11th edition of the Be a scientist project wrapped up on Thursday, 11 May 2023. For four months, 30 teachers and 684 schoolchildren aged from 7 to 12 from the Geneva, Ain and
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Let’s quantum
Let’s quantum A first-of-its-kind workshop at CERN saw high-school students coming to the Laboratory to discover the fascinating field of quantum science and technology On 6 May, CERN hosted its first-ever workshop for high-school students on all things quantum. The event was organised jointly by CERN’s Quantum Technology Initiative (QTI) and Finland’s QPlayLearn team in
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Between two infinities: Our place in the Universe
Between two infinities: Our place in the Universe A conference by Gianfranco Bertone on 1 June BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://voisins.cern/en/between-two-infinities-our-place-universe-0) Spectacular advances in modern astronomy have opened our horizon to an unexpected cosmos: a dark, mysterious universe, populated by enigmatic entities we know very little about, such as black holes, dark
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Pint of Science Festival 2023: come and meet CERN scientists on 22, 23 and 24 May
Pint of Science Festival 2023: come and meet CERN scientists on 22, 23 and 24 May CERN scientists will participate in three Pint of Science events in Geneva and one in Saint-Genis-Pouilly. Come along and learn something new about CERN in your local bar. Pint of Science is an annual global science festival that gets
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Happy birthday to the Passport to the Big Bang
Happy birthday to the Passport to the Big Bang The Passport to the Big Bang discovery trail is celebrating its tenth anniversary – ten years during which local people have been able to find out about science and technology while cycling around the France-Geneva countryside. Are ugly quarks the same as beauty antiquarks? Can neutrinos
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The 2023 Django Girls Geneva event was a resounding success!
The 2023 Django Girls Geneva event was a resounding success! Last weekend, 34 “Django Girls” discovered the world of computer programming and created their first website under the guidance of CERN mentors On 21 and 22 April 2023, after two consecutive fully online events, CERN once again hosted an in-person Django Girls Geneva workshop at
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Physics masterclasses at CERN – pupils from local schools discover the infinitesimally small
Physics masterclasses at CERN – pupils from local schools discover the infinitesimally small Upper-secondary-school pupils spent a day analysing real data from CERN’s particle physics experiments This year, in the context of the physics masterclasses coordinated by the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG), CERN again welcomed more than 80 pupils from local secondary schools
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CERN takes part in the Earth Hour
CERN takes part in the Earth Hour CERN took part in this symbolic initiative, as it does every year, to signal its commitment to protecting the environment Every year, on the last Saturday of March, Earth Hour is a call to the people of the world to take action to help protect nature and the
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Science Gateway: Night-time traffic disruption expected from 3 to 13 April on the Route de Meyrin
Science Gateway: Night-time traffic disruption expected from 3 to 13 April on the Route de Meyrin Due to works related to Science Gateway, the Route de Meyrin will be closed between 10.00 p.m. and 5.00 a.m. on the nights of 3-6 and 11-13 April Science Gateway, CERN’s new education and science outreach centre, is reaching
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Around a hundred budding young programmers took part in the DevoXX4Kids workshops at CERN
Around a hundred budding young programmers took part in the DevoXX4Kids workshops at CERN Young people aged from 4 to 15 spent a day getting to grips with new technologies in a fun and intuitive way during the DevoXX4Kids workshops, held at CERN. On Saturday, 11 March 2023, CERN hosted DevoXX4Kids – a day of