CERN turns to open source software as Microsoft increases its fees

For the last 20 years, CERN -- home of the Large Hadron Collider -- has been using Microsoft products under a discounted "academic institution" rate. But in March, at the end of its previous contract, Microsoft revoked CERN's academic status. Accordi...

The World Wide Web at 30: We got the free and open internet we deserve

This isn't the internet that Tim Berners-Lee envisioned when he laid the groundwork for the World Wide Web 30 years ago today. Rather than the free and open online utopia, "The web has evolved into an engine of inequity and division," he wrote in 201...

ICYMI: Physicists just cracked a big anti-matter hurdle

Today on In Case You Missed It: CERN scientists announced they were able to measure anti-matter on the optical spectrum after a full 20 years of trying. This could not only help us understand the universe better but probably solve the mystery o...