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In his keynote address at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, Rolf Heuer pushed investment in science, and "co-opetition"
An interactive timeline from the ALICE collaboration tells the story of the detector from its design to current upgrade work
Join the last Hangout with CERN of this series to talk about dark matter at 5pm (CET)
Conception of the LHC experiments took many years, this year three of them celebrate their 20th anniversaries
François Flückiger inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame
American sound sculptor Bill Fontana will begin his arts residency at CERN 4 July with a lecture – follow the live webcast
CERN, ERF and ESS launch the second workshop on energy management in research infrastructures
The ISOLTRAP collaboration has measured the mass of exotic calcium nuclei using a new instrument installed at the ISOLDE facility at CERN
Astronaut Ernst Messerschmid's experience at CERN was an important factor in the process that led to his becoming one of the first Germans in space
EuCARD2 – an R&D project for next-generation accelerators – launched at a two-day workshop at CERN last week
A ground-breaking ceremony today marked the start of construction of an extension to CERN's antimatter facility
The Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Hungary hosts a major extension of CERN computing resources