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Education is a recurring theme of our 60th anniversary year, says CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer
A new, more intuitive version of the Engineering and Equipment Data Management Service (EDMS) is now available
Due to the serious “Heartbleed” vulnerability you will need to change your CERN passwords before 13 May 2014, failing which accounts may be blocked
Former CERN Director-General Herwig Schopper recalls a decade of growth at CERN
Today CERN inaugurated the ELENA building (393) after less than a year's construction work
Signed just two weeks ago, the new CERN-ESA agreement is already bearing fruit
Connecting CERN to the internet was a chaotic but essential task, says retired CERN computer scientist Ben Segal
Phil Burrows of the University of Oxford succeeds Roberto Corsini of CERN as spokesperson for the CLIC accelerator collaboration
At a ceremony today in Hong Kong, the Internet Society has recognized Ben Segal for his contributions to the development of the internet
CERN will share a stand with the European Space Agency at the world's largest industrial fair
Arts@CERN is delighted to invite you to the Council Chamber at 1pm and meet visual artist Alberto Di Fabio