Signe Brewster
January 2013
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January 23, 2013breaking: Say hello to CERNScientists, engineers and other personalities from Europe’s largest physics lab begin a new series of “Hangout with CERN” video chats.
December 2012
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December 19, 2012breaking: US-CERN partnership to accelerate neutrino researchUS institutions are working with the SHINE experiment at CERN to better understand the particle interactions that produce neutrinos.
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December 7, 2012signal to background: ‘Human calculator’ Wim Klein advanced physics, inspired othersMath whiz Wim Klein, born a century ago, moved physics forward with his calculations as computer developers worked to catch up with him.
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December 3, 2012breaking: Crystals show promise as particle pilots in LHCScientists are exploring using tiny crystals to remove rogue particles from the world's most powerful collider.
November 2012
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November 26, 2012signal to background: Contributing to an LHC experiment, no transatlantic travel requiredScientists participate in the CMS experiment from afar using remote operations centers.
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November 20, 2012feature: A bouquet of options: Higgs factory ideas bloomNow that a Higgs-like boson has been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, proposals to build colliders that churn out the new particle are gathering momentum.
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November 15, 2012signal to background: Physics never sleepsPhysicists from all over the world work the night shift to guide the Large Hadron Collider and its particle detectors from sunset to sunrise. Take a peek into two of the five CERN control rooms that are staffed 24 hours a day.
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November 12, 2012signal to background: Passing along LHC know-how to future generationsPreserving expertise about how complicated detectors work is one of the Large Hadron Collider's biggest challenges.
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November 8, 2012breaking: Lead-proton collisions yield surprising effect in CMS experimentCMS physicists have once again found a “ridge” in their data, this time in lead–proton collisions.
October 2012
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October 18, 2012breaking: Angry Birds to teach particle physicsThe vengeful Angry Birds cardinal sets his sights on a new target: teaching kids particle physics.
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October 15, 2012signal to background: A summer of (physics) codeThis summer, seven young coding whizzes contributed to CERN projects through the Google Summer of Code program.
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October 2, 2012application: BeehivesAbout 30 percent of bees in the United States die of disease, infection or other causes each year, a number beekeepers say will have a serious impact on agriculture. Could particle accelerators be the solution?
September 2012
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September 26, 2012breaking: CERN artist-in-residence mixes order and uncertaintyJulius von Bismarck uses rules to create a sense of chaos in his latest piece.
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September 14, 2012breaking: First proton-lead collision test at the LHC successfulFor the first time, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have collided protons with lead ions, a feat that will give them insight into the quark-gluon plasma.
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September 10, 2012breaking: Scientists already planning for LHC long shutdownNext year, scientific collaborations will take full advantage of the Large Hadron Collider's time without beam.
August 2012
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August 8, 2012breaking: LHCb experiment collects record amount of dataThe LHCb experiment at CERN has collect a record amount of data this year, already surpassing the amount it collected in all of 2011.
