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This week marks the 50th anniversary of collisions in CERN’s Intersecting Storage Rings, the first hadron collider ever built
CMS data recorded in 2010 and 2011 from lead–lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider have been released into the public domain for the first time
The number of notifications of alleged copyright violations we received in 2020 was much lower than in previous years
Meet Mario Di Castro, leader of the Mechatronics, Robotics and Operations section, in the last of our Knowledge Transfer spotlight series
Half of a CERN high-gradient test facility embarks on a new life at the University of Melbourne
A duo of researchers from CERN and DESY show how data from radio telescopes can be used to search for high-frequency gravitational waves
The EN-EL group recommends that you turn off all your critical equipment and computer equipment
The 2020 PDG Reviews & Booklets from the Particle Data Group are now available
As of 1st February 2021, Vidyo, the former video conference service will be deprecated
