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CERN’s Next Ion Medical Machine Study (NIMMS) and new European projects are building on existing hadron-therapy research to treat cancer
CERN welcomes Estonia as an Associate Member State in the pre-stage to Membership
The Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) at CERN’s Antimatter Factory has set new limits on how easily axion-like particles could turn into photons
This week marks the 50th anniversary of collisions in CERN’s Intersecting Storage Rings, the first hadron collider ever built
CMS data recorded in 2010 and 2011 from lead–lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider have been released into the public domain for the first time
Half of a CERN high-gradient test facility embarks on a new life at the University of Melbourne
A duo of researchers from CERN and DESY show how data from radio telescopes can be used to search for high-frequency gravitational waves
Highlights of the year at CERN, from engineering and accelerator milestones to particle physics results and much more
The bounds are some of the tightest yet on the existence of third-generation leptoquarks