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Post-conflict nations establish supercomputing centres with CERN servers in a bid to stem brain-drain of highly-skilled graduates
Two teams of high-school students, one from the Praedinius Gymnasium in Groningen, Netherlands, and one from the West High School in Salt Lake City, USA, have won the 2019 Beamline for Schools competition
On 14 and 15 September, CERN will throw its doors open wide and invite the public to spend the weekend exploring science.
The European particle physics community is meeting this week in Granada, Spain, to discuss the roadmap for the future of the discipline
The Serbian flag was raised today at a ceremony on the Esplanade des Particules to mark the country’s accession as CERN’s 23rd Member State
A new superconducting electrical transmission line for the High-Luminosity LHC uses new materials, a new cooling system and unprecedented technologies
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CERN is launching a new scientific education and outreach centre
