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First selected project could save lives by providing earlier earthquake alerts
The TOTEM collaboration at the LHC and the DØ collaboration at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab have discovered an elusive state of three gluons
With a challenging Long Shutdown 2 coming to an end, the Accelerators and Technology sector stands ready to build CERN’s future
About 70% of the emails received by CERN are of the malicious kind
The 2020 ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Awards and Thesis Awards were presented on 11 February
The Crowd4SDG consortium promotes citizen science aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on climate action
The ATLAS collaboration welcomes new management this month, with Andreas Hoecker (CERN) taking the lead as Spokesperson for the experiment
