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Discover how the accelerator technology is used to study art and archaeological artefacts
As the year draws to a close, I’d like to wish you and your families a very well deserved end-of-year break
Eighteen staff members reached 25 years of service at CERN in 2016
The ALPHA collaboration celebrate this week after twenty years of work resulted in them seeing, for the first time, antimatter's light spectrum
I would like to bring you the main news from the last Council week of 2016, which concluded today.
The CERN Procurement and Industrial Services group has been awarded the EIPM - Peter Kraljic Award for Innovation and Process Excellence
The award was presented for an Open Compute Project investigation into whether or not it could be sent out for public procurement
A tripartite agreement between CERN, France and Switzerland reinforces cooperation between their respective emergency services
The International Gender Initiative acknowledges CERN ’s efforts to improve gender equality
As the 2016 LHC run ends, the machine has transcended the dreams of its designers
Rolf Heuer has been appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour)
Don’t let CERN’s memory be erased! Bring us your magnetic tapes on the life of the Laboratory to have them digitised
