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With classical songs (R. Schumann, M. Ravel) and airs from opera (W.A. Mozart, G. Verdi, P. I. Tchaïkovski, A. Borodine)
This week, work began to upgrade and replace more than 100 Uninterruptible Power Supplies in the LHC
The LHC featured highly in the High Energy and Particle Physics prizes for 2013 from the European Physical Society
CERN’s director for research and computing Sergio Bertolucci on why he's a confirmed fan of TED talks
CERN will open its doors to the general public on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 September 2013
Please sign up before 15 May to help with this project
A new computer room housing 90 new racks of servers forms a significant expansion of the CERN Data Centre
The inaugural TEDxCERN event at CERN today will see a plethora of talks on topics from seafloor earthquakes to the Higgs boson
Robert Cailliau on the birth of the web, early brainstorming sessions and "how to spread this thing"
Vinton G Cerf, one of the "Fathers of the internet", on the architecture, connectivity and openness of the web
Electrical-quality-assurance testing of superconducting circuits is underway in sector 3-4 of the LHC
