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Hot water from the LHC’s cooling system at Point 8 will be collected to heat a new area of the neighbouring commune of Ferney-Voltaire
All members of the personnel wishing to act as volunteers must sign-up on the platform for CERN Outreach Events Volunteers by 31 July
CERN technologies have proven to be beneficial in driving innovation in industries around the world. Four new contracts have been signed between CERN and Israeli companies
The first measurement, by the ALICE collaboration, of an elliptic-shaped flow for bottomonium particles could help shed light on the early universe
ATLAS and CMS have studied the Higgs boson with the largest sample of proton–proton collision data recorded so far
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