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Some 500 particle physicists meeting in Krakow, Poland, this week debated the long-term future of their field at the CERN Council Open Symposium
Today's HR report shows a beautiful round number of CERN personnel
A two-day event in building 500 offers the opportunity to meet key publishers and to browse and buy books at significant discounts
It was particularly pleasing to see science, the LHC and Higgs bosons featuring so strongly in the opening ceremony of the Paralympics last week
Windows XP has been around for over 10 years and it is now time to move on
Linac 4 has begun testing its RFQ module. This is the first stage of testing for the Linac 2 successor
A CERN-Fermilab team has developed a new magnet that will be a valuable asset to the HL-LHC, the next step of for LHC machine
CERN is working together with an Italian company to develop superconducting cables that can function at temperatures of up to 25 K (-248°C)
The laboratory is launching a new diversity programme aimed at strengthening our tradition of inclusiveness. I encourage all at CERN to take part
The African School of Physics was held in Ghana this summer, where lecturers from CERN shared their expertise with 50 motivated students
Heavy-ion experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will present their latest results at the Quark Matter 2012 conference
Today marks 100 years since Victor Hess made last of series of balloon flights leading to the discovery of cosmic rays