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CERN is currently hosting the Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13, running from 27 to 31 October, watch the webcast
CERN, along with Peter Higgs and François Englert, today receives the Prince of Asturias Award during a ceremony in Spain
Former ATLAS Experiment spokesperson, Fabiola Gianotti, is among the 26 scientists appointed to the UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board
There's more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. Check out what some of the non-LHC experiments have been getting up to this year
Watch the webcast of today’s workshop on energy for sustainable science
CERN is launching Accelerate@CERN, its new country specific one month research award for artists
The recent CERN Open Days hosted talks on topics from antimatter and the Higgs boson to the anthropology of science. Watch the talks online
Watch CERN engineers install a new beam dump at the Proton Synchrotron Booster, one of CERN's older accelerators
Cameras were rolling in CERN's building 40 when members of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations heard the news from Stockholm live yesterday
The 2013 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their theoretical work on the Higgs boson
