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The fourth Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, AEPSHEP2018, is open for applications (deadline 1 April 2018)
The Year-End Technical Stop drew to a close on 9 March. Read about the LHC plans the last year of Run 2
A new European project linking ELENA and ISOLDE plans to trap antimatter in order to explore quantum phenomena in radioactive nuclei
The Joint Universities Accelerator School in Archamps, France, has celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday
The first Rucio community workshop, held at CERN, brought together computing experts from several experiments and organisations.
Your computer and smartphone are the centre of your life and people with malicious intent are seeking to compromise them
New collimators are being installed and tested in the LHC. They will improve its protection and prepare it for higher luminosity in the HL-LHC
CERN has a very rich physics programme not only at the high-energy frontier, let’s take a look at some of the interesting results it’s producing.
What repairs have been made at the experiments during the year-end technical stop
CERN welcomed the President of the Republic of Austria, the Governor-General of Australia, and the President of the Republic of Mozambique
Stefan Ulmer and Chloé Malbrunot are the newly elected chairs of the Antiproton Decelerator Users Community
Female scientists visited 108 local classrooms to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
