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An agreement that was recently signed between CERN and Sri Lanka will allow more Sri Lankan scientists and teachers to participate in CERN programmes
The LHCb experiment has observed for the first time particles made up of five quarks
After a week of preparations for operation at higher intensity, physics data collection has resumed at the LHC
Check out a new podcast from particle physicists Tova Holmes and Laura Jeanty that brings you right to the heart of the ATLAS collaboration
One week of LHC operation is being devoted to scrubbing the beam pipes to eliminate electron clouds, which can destabilise the beam
Google Street Views of many CERN sites are now available directly from Google Maps
Researchers in Gran Sasso, Italy, have detected a tau neutrino in the muon-neutrino beam from CERN
Two teams of high-school students have been selected to travel to the laboratory in September
Physicists are using LHC detector technology to retrieve Native American music from old recordings
The first planned technical stop of the LHC starts on Monday, with five days of maintenance work scheduled for the accelerator and its experiments
From cloud chambers to 3D animations, physicists use a host of ingenious techniques to reveal subatomic particles too tiny to see