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On 11 September, CERN received a visit from Ana Brnabić, Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia
In July 2018, CERN took part in the WOMAD Festival near Bristol in the UK
This year, IdeaSquare will welcome LHCreate’s fourth edition on 18 and 19 October. Everyone at CERN is warmly invited to take part
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The experiment successfully accelerated electrons with plasma wakefields generated by protons, a world first
Since the recovery from the recent machine development period, the LHC has been in luminosity production mode, crawling its way up towards 60 fb-1
Learning is good for you, and it’s good for CERN. And it just got easier! So dive into the Learning Hub and sample CERN's rich world of learning
On Friday, 28 September 2018 CERN organises Researchers’ Night for the 9th consecutive year!
Learning is good for you, and it’s good for CERN. And it just got easier! So dive into the Learning Hub and sample the rich world of learning
Money has always been a catalyst for greed and malice. Blackmail is one way to extort money from the innocent and has existed since ancient times
The 2017 Annual Report from the HR Department concerning the settlement of disputes and discipline under Chapter VI of the Staff Rules and Regulations
An upgrade to the “Small Wheels”, the innermost sections of the ATLAS muon end-cap system, will help ATLAS cope with the conditions at the HL-LHC