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The 23rd Hadron Collider Physics Symposium 2012 kicks off today in Kyoto, Japan
The second Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN artist's residency has been awarded to American sound-artist Bill Fontana (65)
Former manager of the ISS programme William Gerstenmaier will talk about the space station in the CERN Globe this evening
To mark the end of his residency as CERN's artist in residence, choreographer Gilles Jobin will talk about "Collisions between dance and physics"
Edward Stone, project scientist for the Voyager probes since 1972, will talk in the CERN Globe at 8pm CEST
<em>Symmetry</em> has more on what the Higgs-like particle, announced at CERN on 4 July, could be
The 4th International Conference on Particle and Fundamental Physics in Space (SpacePart12) will take place at CERN from 5 November to 7 November 2012
A smaller beam pipe and a redesign of the tracker systems are among the upgrades the ALICE experiment will deploy during the long shutdown of the LHC
CERN's head of communications James Gillies was awarded the Global Business Communicator of the year award at an event in Mumbai, India on Friday
Thirty-one students evaluated the market potential of three CERN technologies this week as part of a collaboration with their Norwegian university
Scientists from CERN examined the common ground between science, philosophy and theology at a Wilton Park meeting this week
This summer, seven young coding wizzes contributed to CERN projects through the Google Summer of Code program