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On 15 November 2016 CERN welcomed Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland
On Friday, 21 October 2016, CERN's teams had to secure their Linux systems against a new and highly critical vulnerability dubbed “DirtyCow”
After having accelerated a beam up to the design energy of 160 MeV, Linac 4 is now entering a new phase of its commissioning
The LHC’s success is not alone. Linac 4 and ELENA have also reached important milestones
Some 120 experts in cryogenic safety met at CERN for the first Cryogenic Safety Seminar. Their discussions included Kryolize, a new CERN technology
The LHC has begun colliding beams of protons with lead ions to probe the early universe from which matter emerged
On 5 November, the 4th edition of TEDxCERN rushed the audience through a journey of exploration and revelation on the theme ‘Ripples of Curiosity’
Do yourself a favour: protect your privacy, protect your computer. Lock the screen when leaving your laptop unattended
The ICARUS detector will be soon inserted into its own cryostat and shipped to Chicago
Our target for the integrated luminosity for 2016 was 25 inverse femtobarns. We reached 40
Last week saw the end of proton-proton physics operation for 2016 following a successful year of running at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV
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