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At its 195th Session today, the CERN Council selected Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization’s next Director-General, for her second term of office
CERN’s HSE unit is organising a free distribution of reflective tags to help us stay safe on the roads through the dark winter nights
Detector pieces have travelled across the globe to build ALICE’s new inner detector at CERN
The CMS collaboration reported the Higgs boson’s mass with a precision of about 0.1%
During a two-month test run that started at the end of September, Linac4 will send negative hydrogen ions up to the door of the PS Booster
The five-yearly review enables CERN to update its financial and social conditions
A run in preparation for the Escalade race will take place on Sunday, 17 November on the CERN site
If you take advantage of the plethora of software snippets, code excerpts, libraries and the like circulating on the Internet, don’t forget that there’s a risk: is the code safe? Bug-free? Maintained? And free of any malicious components?
On 12 November, a major rescue exercise will be carried out in the area around the Globe of Science and Innovation
CERN’s civil engineers are tackling the tunnelling challenges of a post-LHC collider