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An international team of physicists at ISOLDE have for the first time measured the ionization potential of the rare radioactive element astatine
An international team at the ISOLDE radioactive-beam facility at CERN has shown that some atomic nuclei can assume asymmetric, "pear" shapes
Zenodo, hosted at CERN, will researchers to share publications and supporting data more easily
A new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious "ridge effect"
Marc Abrahams, editor of the <em>Annals of Improbable Research</em> will be presenting the Ig Nobel show at the University of Geneva today
Physicists from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations explain how they came to identify the new particle of 2012 as "a Higgs boson"
The inaugural TEDxCERN event at CERN today will see a plethora of talks on topics from seafloor earthquakes to the Higgs boson
Behind the excellent results from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) lies the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid – a giant that never sleeps
The ALPHA collaboration has published a paper describing the first direct analysis of how antimatter is affected by gravity
On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web technology available on a royalty free basis, allowing the web to flourish
With the long shutdown under way, the ALICE collaboration is preparing for the next 10 years of operation