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CERN raised today the Estonian flag to welcome its 24th Member State
The latest camp just concluded – 30 high-school students from all over the world came to CERN for a week full of science and fun
Part seven of the Work Well Feel Well series looks at how to prepare for peaks in workload
CERN community: you can now order an exclusive T-shirt to be delivered via internal mail or buy limited edition CERN70 items from the CERN shop
The Bug Bounty programme, or how to create the necessary incentives to invite hackers to start hacking CERN…
Check out this curated list of upcoming events for the CERN community
The aim of the third update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics is to develop a visionary and concrete plan that greatly advances human knowledge in fundamental physics through the realisation of the next flagship project at CERN
Equipping all supervisors to strengthen CERN’s Safety culture
Join us as we explore CERN's current environmental initiatives, its progress towards achieving them and its future goals looking towards 2030
The major upgrade of the LHC will be tested in an above-ground facility that has recently had its first superconducting system installed
