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Over the past year, the "Lonely Chairs at CERN" photography blog has let the chairs do the talking

This week, CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer focusses on respect, whether at home, at work or on the international scene

Rolf Heuer visited the SESAME laboratory in Jordan on 13 April along with European Commissioner for research, Carlos Moedas

The major news this week is, of course, the start of LHC Run 2

The LHC started up again on Sunday for the first time in two years. LHC operators celebrated the smooth restart with champagne and chocolate eggs

The first beams could be circulating in the machine sometime between Saturday and Monday

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Against a backdrop of great progress in the powering tests for running at 6.5 TeV, a short cicuit is causing a delay, writes Rolf Heuer

LHC run 2 is coming ever closer, but there will be no beam in the LHC this week

Today at CERN His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa discussed science and perception with CERN researchers

The success of the LS1, the restart of accelerators and the impact of the high value of the Swiss franc were discussed during CERN Council meeting.

This week saw the cost and schedule of the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) and LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) projects come under close scrutiny