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CERN is to open a new office for medical applications
President of Italian Republic honours Rubbia along with neuroscientist Elena Cattaneo, musical director Claudio Abbado and architect Renzo Piano
Remember: There are many ways for CERN people to explore the laboratory, even for those not lucky enough to get an underground visit ticket
Tomorrow a team from Google will continue the process of taking street images on CERN’s sites
Physicists will lift the lid on their life and work at CERN through stand-up comedy at "LHComedy" on 30 August
At a National Instruments conference in Texas last week, CERN received three awards for excellence in systems design
Work on the ALICE Photon Spectrometer will make it faster and more stable
This year CERN welcomed 276 summer students, including 133 from non-member states
In less than a month three young scientists from ISOLDE's EC-SLI collaboration won awards at international conferences
In Divonne-les-Bains, an association founded by former CERN personnel is restoring the oldest hydroelectric plant in France
Summer for particle physicists is the season for “summer conferences” and the past week saw two big meetings in full swing
The Italian Physical Society awarded five physicists for discoveries at the LHC