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Come and listen to good music at CERN’s Hardronic festival on Saturday 20 July
International researchers and industry meet in Brussels for the annual meeting of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study to discuss the post-LHC era
Post-conflict nations establish supercomputing centres with CERN servers in a bid to stem brain-drain of highly-skilled graduates
Answers to the quiz and survey on waste management at CERN
Are you passionate about science? Then come along to the 2019 CERN Summer Student Webfest on the weekend of 26 to 28 July
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Leaders of international scientific organisations support the International Day of LGBTQ+ people in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
Improvements to the cryogenics infrastructure will more than double the liquid helium production capacity of SM18
