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The winning teams of Beamline for Schools 2021 spent two full weeks at DESY working on their experiments
Make your appointment and get vaccinated before 29 October
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Little Amal is a 3.5-m-tall animated puppet of a Syrian refugee girl who has embarked on a remarkable journey – an 8000-km artistic voyage that is taking her across Turkey and Europe. To find her mother, to get back to school, to start a new life.
On 23 September, 16 CERN Council delegates visited the new underground cavern at Point 1
The Second Collisions CERN alumni event will take place online, with participants able to explore the CERN site virtually
With many developments planned or under consideration, this is the decade of CERN’s Prévessin site
Magnet training for the LHC circuits will be completed by the end of the year
During LS2, 16 new collimators have been installed in the LHC ready for the next run and above all for the future HL-LHC
On 5, 9 and 10 October, CERN will take part in Fête de la Science in Annecy-le-Vieux for the first time
