CERN pauses future research collaboration with Russia at Ukrainian scientists’ request

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will not enter new collaborations with Russian scientific institutions following a request of Ukraine’s scientists to halt partnerships with Russian science institutions in response to Russia’s military invasion of their country. 

CERN operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world including the famous Large Hadron Collider, which discovered the so-called “God particle,” the Higgs boson, in 2012.