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James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz receive the prize for discoveries in cosmology and astronomy
CERN welcomes the Republic of Croatia as an Associate Member State
The newly published book distils inputs from Europe’s particle physics community
Arts at CERN announces two open calls for art residencies – Collide Geneva/Dance and Accelerate Finland – and the arrival of the winners of Collide International, Rosa Menkman, and Collide Pro Helvetia, Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller.
A new facility following the founding principles of CERN begins its design phase
The NA62 experiment has detected two candidate events for the decay of a positively charged kaon into a pion and a neutrino–antineutrino pair
World-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs 100 metres underground at the Large Hadron Collider
Vivek Nallur, assistant professor at University College Dublin, discussed aspects such as implicit bias during his talk at CERN
The CMS muon system is being upgraded to help track muons with ever-higher precision
75 000 visitors discovered hundreds of activities on nine CERN sites over the weekend
A new seismic device developed by CERN and JINR is now being tested at the Advanced Virgo detector
