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The switch - a test for a longer proton-lead run scheduled for January to February 2013 - presented numerous technical challenges
Some 500 particle physicists meeting in Krakow, Poland, this week debated the long-term future of their field at the CERN Council Open Symposium
The collaborations published the latest in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the journal <em>Physics Letters B</em>
Computer security advice from CERN's head of computer security Stefan Lüders
The particle was the star of Enlightenment - a science-themed ceremony featuring Stephen Hawking and Ian McKellen
Linear accelerator 4 will deliver particles to the Proton-Synchrotron Booster at more than triple the energy the current linac achieves
A CERN-Fermilab team has developed a new magnet that will be a valuable asset to the HL-LHC, the next step of for LHC machine
Today marks 100 years since Victor Hess made last of series of balloon flights leading to the discovery of cosmic rays
Five winners of a competition announced on Twitter reached the vast audience during CERN's first ever Tweetup
On 31 July, an unmanned Russian Progress spacecraft was launched from Kazakhstan, carrying five Timepix detectors to the ISS