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Vote online now for a Lego replica of the LHC, created by an ATLAS PhD student
Watch a timelapse video of the huge LHC detectors ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb preparing to start up again
Donations are helping CERN experts to turn KiCad software into an efficient tool for designing open-source hardware
The laboratory's accelerator chain is supplying an experiment with argon ions for the first time
Two years ago, CERN's accelerators and experiments shut down for maintenance, to prepare the LHC for running at 13 TeV
Lucio Rossi and Fermilab’s Giorgio Apollinari talk about light, luminosity and the High-Luminosity LHC project
Recent publications from CMS use data from the LHC's first run to shed light on the properties of the Higgs boson
During 2015, the International Year of Light, CERN is highlighting the High Luminosity LHC project and CERN’s involvement in the SESAME laboratory
With ‘LHC Season 2’ starting soon, running at a new high energy, the LHC key is handed back to the machine operators today
CERN Director General and the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission sign a document admitting Pakistan to CERN Associate Membership
A look back at the some of the stories in the laboratory's 60th anniversary year
The CERN cryogenics team are filling the LHC with liquid helium, cooling entire sections to below 4K