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It’s the end of Long Shutdown 2 for the PS Booster, the first accelerator to be recommissioned, alongside Linac 4
Marcel Rieger, from RWTH Aachen University, stood out among the 25 nominees
The IT department has started putting more and more privileged access routes to vital configuration services behind multi-factor authentication
CERN’s identity management system – responsible for managing your computing accounts and granting you access to the thousands of online services available to CERN users – is evolving: we need your feedback by the end of July
Around 100 pupils taking part in the project ended the year by attending videoconference sessions
The Medical Service outlines the preventive measures to be taken in with the event of a heatwave during the COVID-19 pandemic
Claude Détraz, a noteworthy figure in nuclear and particle physics in France and Europe, passed away on Saturday, 20 June 2020
Chris Parkes takes the baton from Giovanni Passaleva
