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The CMS experiment awaits LHC Run 3 to explore several analyses showing small disagreements with theory expectations
From 29 June to 3 July, the CineGlobe international film festival will return to CERN’s Globe of Science and Innovation for its 11th edition.
In the past few weeks, you might have noticed some of our firefighter colleagues wearing a red T-shirt that reads “Firefighter in induction”
Providing computer security for an organisation, company or university resembles playing a permanent game of chess
The Director-General has nominated Laura Kiviharju, Massimo Marelli and David Taylor as mem-bers of CERN’s new Data Protection Commission (DPC), which took up its functions on 1 June 2022
The renovation work will start in autumn 2022
Following the 208th session of the CERN Council, which concluded on 17 June, the Director-General sent the following message to the CERN personnel
On 5 July, after more than three years of long shutdown, the physics season will start at the LHC with a new energy world record
You can read it online or get a paper copy at the Library
On 13 July, the first CERN-driven space mission will be launched from Europe’s Spaceport
