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Two years on from the announcement, find out the latest results from the CERN experiments at the ICHEP conference
At UNESCO headquarters in Paris today, CERN and UNESCO are celebrating 60 years of science for peace. Watch the webcast
In preparation for the LHC's next run, physicists are calibrating the ATLAS experiment - with high-energy rays from outer space
The Universe of Particles exhibition in CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation has won a certificate of excellence from the travel website TripAdvisor
Cool down of the Large Hadron Collider has already begun in preparation for research to resume early in 2015
Results reported by ATLAS and CMS discuss the decay of Higgs bosons directly to fermions, the particles that make up matter
An organisation based at CERN provides satellite images and analysis to help relief and development teams on the ground in disaster areas
CERN's ability to innovate attracts creative, ambitious individuals such that "success breeds success in innovation," note authors of OECD report
The two student teams – from Greece and the Netherlands – will carry out experiments at CERN in September. Watch videos from their winning proposals
A new projection system breathes life into the Synchrocyclotron, an accelerator that has been dormant since 1990
ALPHA reports a measurement of the electric charge of antihydrogen atoms, finding it to be compatible with zero to eight decimal places