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Arts at CERN and FACT announce their international call for artists to enter submissions for the COLLIDE International Award
The only light-source laboratory in the Middle East celebrates its first beam, a milestone towards running experiments later this year
As 2017 begins, CERN looks forward to a year full of promise
2016 has been a year of great highlights for CERN and its experiments, this video looks back on the headlines
BASE has kept a shot of antiprotons trapped for more than one year: it is the longest-lived, coldest, known baryonic antimatter object in the Universe
The final installment of In Practice looks at what lies ahead for experimentalists and their field
In a Nature paper, the ALPHA collaboration reports the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter
On 18 December 2016 the Sun aligned with the black hole in the centre of the Milky Way, allowing CAST to search for any exotic particles it might emit
At its 183 session, CERN Council voted unanimously to admit the Republic of Slovenia to Associate Membership in the pre-stage to Membership of CERN.
The AWAKE experiment has reached an important milestone in the development of a technique that could revolutionise particle accelerator design
ATLAS reports the first measurement of the W boson mass using LHC proton–proton collision data at 7 TeV
Particles have circulated in the LHC one last time in 2016 before the winter stop of the accelerators for maintenance