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The exhibition Soft Robots at Copenhagen Contemporary presents artworks developed in dialogue with CERN’s scientific community
"Collision(s)", a play based on a meeting between a playwright and a CERN particle physicist, was performed at the “Avignon Off” Festival on 18 July: a deep dive into the interactions between poets and scientists
The ATLAS collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson and a photon.
Demonstration of first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries
The initiative helped develop breakthrough detection and imaging technologies and tested a model for innovation in Europe
The three winning pictures reflect the Laboratory’s identity and futuristic feel, portraying the ongoing innovation work for future colliders
On 9 July 1925, in a letter to Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg revealed his new ideas, which were to revolutionise physics
