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The XXIX International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics will be held on 22-27 June 2020 in Chicago, IL USA
Three Linux distributions for servers and desktops are officially supported at CERN via the Service Desk. A newly created CERN Linux community forum is available for all other distributions and for Linux laptops
Two new beam dumps are ready to be installed in the Proton Synchrotron
Efficiency and benevolence at work: CERN is launching a campaign as part of the Work Well Feel Well initiative
The collaboration has made public the data of 1 quadrillion proton-proton collisions from the LHC’s last run
Memorandum concerning the 2019 annual certificates and the 2019 income tax declaration forms issued by the Swiss cantonal tax authorities
The measurements are consistent with predictions for “normal” matter and pave the way for future precision studies
A cancer therapy synchrotron that CERN helped to establish has treated a patient with ventricular arrhythmia for the first time
The MoEDAL collaboration at CERN reports the first search at a particle accelerator for particles with both electric and magnetic charge
