CERN welcomes Ireland as an Associate Member State Ireland has officially become an Associate Member State of CERN, following confirmation that it has taken all the necessary steps to ratify the Associate Membership Agreement and accede to the protocol on CERN’s privileges and immunities. The starting date of Ireland’s status as an Associate Member State...
Statement by the Executive Committee of the European Physical Society24th March 2025 The European Physical Society (EPS) has the mission to advocate and promote physics research and its contributions to the economic, technological, social and cultural advancement in Europe. As a federation of more than...
We are delighted to see the early signs of spring returning here in Les Ulis, Paris. Here we share a few updates regarding recent conferences, and a shift in our social media presence towards platforms that support our values of professionalism, transparency, and community-driven dialogue....
Promotion and Advancement of Physics in Europe The European Physical Society is a well-established organisation with a long history of promoting physics in Europe and fostering collaboration among physicists. It acts as a federation of national societies and a learned society for individual members, with...
10,000 times faster than traditional methods: new computational framework automatically discovers experimental designs in microscopy Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) framework which autonomously discovers new experimental designs in microscopy. Read the complete...
Possible clues about the history of the universe from Mediterranean minerals. Ancient minerals, formed six million years ago, during the drying up of the Mediterranean Sea, and known as “evaporites”, could hold precious traces of the interaction with cosmic rays, and reveal important information about...
Bologna, Italy, 7 January 2025 – On January 7, 2025, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), furthering its mission to become the world’s largest and most powerful observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. The creation of...
The International Young Physicists’ Tournament (IYPT) will take place from 29th June to 6th July 2025 in Lund, Sweden. Sam Edgecombe, chairman of IYPT Sweden, invites you to take part in the event. What is IYPT?The International Young Physicists’ Tournament (IYPT), sometimes referred to as the...
The aim of the third update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics is to develop a visionary and concrete plan that greatly advances human knowledge in fundamental physics through the realisation of the next flagship project at CERN.
Winners of the 2024 CERN Beamline for Schools competition: “Mavericks” from Estonia (top right), “SPEEDers” from the USA (bottom right) and “Sakura Particles” from Japan (left) (Images: Mavericks, SPEEDers, Sakura Particles)Geneva and Hamburg, 25 June 2024. Beamline for Schools (BL4S) is a physics competition run by CERN, the...
