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The PS and LEP accelerators, which entered service 60 and 30 years ago, have left a lasting imprint on the field of particle physics
A new tracker made of scintillating fibres will be installed in the LHCb experiment during the ongoing shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider
From a new easy-start template to showcased examples, find out about the latest Drupal 8 resources available to the CERN community
The winning teams from this year’s competition have successfully finished their data-collection runs
You are invited to register for this year's networking event, which will take place on Tuesday, 19 November 2019 from 5 p.m., in CERN’s Main Auditorium
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