In Building 181, half the total number of vacuum chambers required for the LHC Long Straight Sections (LSS) have now been coated with getter material by sputtering. This innovative technique, invented at CERN, will be used on all the LHC 's "warm" vacuum chambers. >>

Many PC users are familiar with screensavers such as SETI@home and FightAIDS@home. These screensavers take advantage of times when your PC is idle to do useful computing on a particular scientific problem. >>

In its 50th Anniversary year, CERN had the honour of opening and closing this year's Geneva Festival. >>

Theory might provide the scaffolding of physics, but it takes experiments to put up the brickwork. The Large Electron-Positron Collider project (LEP), which included four experiments (ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL), was designed to test the Standard Model of particle physics. >>

All staff are invited to the Golden Jubilee Staff Party on the evening of 17 September. To mark CERN's 50th anniversary, the Director General would like to invite all staff working at CERN to celebrate the success of the organization. >>

Following the departure of Juan Antonio Rubio, Corrado Pettenati has been appointed as the acting head of the ETT unit with effect from 1 August. >>