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New International Cooperation Agreements with Lebanon and Palestine pave the way to enhanced collaboration between CERN and the Middle East
As the New Year begins, CERN’s new Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti looks to the goals and challenges for 2016 and beyond
2015: the year that saw the restart of collisions at the world’s largest particle accelerator and the return of the particle hunters to their lookouts
Following the signature of an umbrella agreement in May, a series of detailed CERN-US protocols was concluded today in a short ceremony at CERN
From retrieving data tapes to handling material safely, the robots at CERN fulfill numerous tasks
In preparation for civil engineering work for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, vibration measurements have been carried out near the LHC
The two general-purpose LHC experiments have unveiled analyses of data collected in 2015 from proton collisions at an energy of 13 TeV
The InterActions collaboration has selected its top six photographs in the ‘Global Physics Photowalk’ competition
All the talks from TEDxCERN 2015 from using virtual reality in education to surfing wakefields, are now available online
CERN test magnet reaches a record-breaking goal of 16.2 tesla field, paving way for future accelerator designs
Linac 4 now reaching milestone energy of 50MeV to act as replacement for ageing Linac2, before taking over at head of accelerator chain in 2020
The accelerator is colliding leads ions at an energy about twice as high as that of any previous collider experiment