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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
CERN teams are carrying out all required tests to get proton beams back in the LHC for March 2015
Magnets in one sector of the accelerator are fully prepared for the restart at higher energies
Today IdeaSquare is officially inaugurated, creating a unique space designed to nurture innovation at CERN
Could volunteer computing simulate as much data as the LHC generates? Researchers are setting out to answer this question during a 12-day trial
People across the globe put their questions to CERN in an "Ask Me Anything" session on reddit, on the topic of "Open Science, Open Data & More"
Weekend tests with beams brought protons just short of the LHC
The Open Data Portal makes data from real collision events at the LHC openly available to all