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The Large Hadron Collider has initiated the collision of proton beams for the first time this year
The ALPHA experiment at CERN has measured a light-induced transition in antihydrogen with unprecedented precision
It’s no yolk: the LHCb experiment has discovered the smallest lump of glue that holds matter together.
Protons have been circulating in the Large Hadron Collider since Friday 30 March, marking the start of the machine’s seventh year of operation
The NA62 experiment has observed a candidate event for an ultra-rare charged kaon decay
Artists from all over the world are invited to spend time at CERN and work alongside particle physicists and engineers
ATLAS and CMS present new measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson
An international scientific facility following the CERN model would stimulate the region
Theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, has died on 14 March aged 76.
As CERN’s winter shutdown draws to a close, watch this video to see what has been going on underground
A project called PUMA aims to transport antimatter from one CERN facility to another in order to investigate exotic nuclear phenomena
The world’s first Big Science Business Forum gathered 18 of the most advanced big-science organisations together to meet European companies
