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CMS experiment tracker subdetector passed recent master cold tests, showing it is ready for higher-intensity running

This year CERN celebrates its 60th anniversary – could this be the earliest photograph of the laboratory?

The 4th CineGlobe International Film Festival will take place from 18 to 23 March at CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation in Meyrin, Switzerland

In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal to develop a radical new way of linking and sharing information: the World Wide Web

On his first trip to CERN since sharing the Nobel prize in physics last year with Peter Higgs, François Englert talks Higgs bosons and supersymmetry

On the occasion of International Women's Day (8 March), voices from the CERN community share their views on diversity and collaboration

Source code from the popular software-development site GitHub can now be preserved and cited through the CERN-hosted online repository Zenodo

The start of the LAA project in 1986 propelled electronics at CERN into the era of microelectronics

Watch François Englert explain the equations for the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism that gives particles mass, with the help of a blackboard

A particle accelerator from Heidelberg, Germany – the Test Storage Ring - may not be going into storage after all

In CERN's 60th year, we look back at some of its historic moments. Here magnet coils for the Synchrocyclotron make their journey to Geneva in 1955

The head of CERN's Medical Application Programme addresses a medical conference 60 years after the first use of protons to treat cancer