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Genevieve Guinot, head of the diversity office, answers some questions about what it is really like to work in a diverse organization like CERN
With plasma cell in place, CERN’s AWAKE experiment is one step closer to testing acceleration hundreds of times more powerful than current methods
Experts in medicine, physics, biology and IT come together with the aim of advancing medical techniques
Congratulations to LIGO and Virgo for the first ever direct detection of gravitational waves
The TED website now hosts even more TEDxCERN talks, reaching viewers of more than 1 million per video
CERN Researchers at ISOLDE facility show the supposedly doubly-magic nucleus Calcium-52 has an unexpectedly large charge radius
Less than three years after the EC and CERN announced the start of the CESSAMag project, the final components left CERN bound for Jordan today
The Laboratory welcomes the President of Lithuania and the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
After a major revamp in 2015, CERN’s Microcosm exhibition is once again open to visitors
ALPHA shows the most accurate measurement yet of the electric charge of antihydrogen atoms in a new Nature paper
Hundreds of people were hard at work during the year-end technical stop as all the accelerators underwent maintenance and upgrade operations
Professor Carlo Rubbia, former CERN Director-General, awarded highest scientific prize for foreign individuals by the People’s Republic of China