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Accessibility and reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities is a key facet of the CERN Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) policy
The two barrels of the largest pixel detector ever built have been successfully lowered into the cavern and stand ready for commissioning
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental disorders affect one in four people in the world
Pascale Goy replaces Matteo Castoldi as head of the CERN & Society Foundation
Are all LHC magnets blue? Who decides the colour of a magnet and on what basis? What does the small purple one do? See our answers below
780 budding scientists from schools in the local French and Geneva area set out to identify the content of mysterious boxes
Ransomware attacks against enterprises and academia are not a new phenomenon...
Some members of the HEP community have organised a fundraising initiative to purchase ventilators, oxygen concentrators, PPE and other medical supplies that are running critically low in India
