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Over recent years, CERN has been tightening its links with fellow organisations in Geneva’s vibrant international community
The CMS Physics Analysis Toolkit (PAT) tutorial, the fifteenth edition of which ran from 30 June to 5 July, has come a long way
Physicists from across the globe bring a welcome richness to the LHC experiments, says former ATLAS spokesperson Peter Jenni
The 2014 High School Teacher Programme (HST) is well under way, and this year it has a distinct Middle Eastern flavour, says Rolf Heuer
The new ALICE Run Control Centre was inaugurated on the occasion of the collaboration dinner organized at Point 2 during a recent "ALICE week"
Come along to the 3rd CERN Summer Student Webfest on the weekend of 1-3 August
PhD students Juska Pekkanen and Nairit Sur recount their induction session for newcomers to CMS
The European Molecular Biology Organization was founded in July 1964, with the aim of setting up a CERN for molecular biology
CERN physicists joined composers and musicians to rock out with the universe at the Montreux jazz festival this week
Luciano Maiani on forging new links between Europe and the New World
Scientists with ALICE have been awarded the European Physical Society's Lise Meitner Prize for their work on quark-gluon plasma
