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The new cycle path between the Meyrin and Prévessin sites was officially opened on Friday, 14 October
This year, the Adobe Flash Player made it to number 1 in the charts of ways your PC or laptop could be compromised
See the images from the celebration to mark the end of phase 1 of HIE-ISOLDE
Success for the European Researchers’ Night, which attracted almost 600 visitors on 30 September
Two teams of high-school students from the UK and Poland had the opportunity to conduct their own experiments at a fully equipped CERN beamline
With the winners of the CERN Beamline for Schools 2016 competition on their way home, it is a good time to take a look at the CERN & Society programme
The Large Hadron Collider is now producing more than a billion proton-proton collisions per second
The annual meeting of ENLIGHT, which focuses on particle therapy for cancer treatment, was held in the Netherlands
About 1 billion Android smartphones are facing their Armageddon. Again
On Tuesday 20 September 2016, recently-recruited staff members and fellows participated in a session in the framework of the induction programme
A ceremony to mark the laying of the foundation stone of Building 311, which will house a magnetic measurement laboratory, took place on 22 September
Creation of a Physics Beyond Colliders study group to provide input to the next update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics