An ATLAS event with 2 photons
The 2 photons are indicated by the clusters of energy shown in green. (Image: CERN)

Elementary particles gain their mass from a fundamental field associated with the Higgs boson

3d view photo of the LHC Machine.
(Image: CERN)

The 27-kilometre LHC is the world's largest particle accelerator. It collides protons or lead ions at energies approaching the speed of light

Bubble chamber: Omega production and decay
Desintegration d'un kaon positif (meson K+) en vol. (Image: CERN)

The Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter. So why is there far more matter than antimatter in the universe?

The first web server: this machine was used by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 to develop and run the first WWW server, multi-media browser and web editor.
Photo faite en 1990 (Image: CERN)

The World Wide Web, invented at CERN in 1989 by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, has grown to revolutionise communications worldwide

Crab Cavities in action, August 2017
Crab Cavities Experiment (Image: CERN)

A project to increase the luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider by a factor of 10 beyond its design value by 2020