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Watch the first of several spacewalks for AMS live on Friday 15 November from 12.50 p.m. CET
At its 195th Session today, the CERN Council selected Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization’s next Director-General, for her second term of office
CERN welcomes the Republic of Croatia as an Associate Member State
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.
On Saturday, 14 and Sunday, 15 September, CERN will open its doors to the public
Latvian tugboat provides first test-bed for new technology to clean exhausts from ships
Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Z. Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen are recognised for their 1976 discovery of an influential theory called supergravity
Dutch artist Rosa Menkman has been selected as the winner of the first Collide International award in Barcelona alongside four Honorary Mentions
ATLAS and CMS have studied the Higgs boson with the largest sample of proton–proton collision data recorded so far
