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A new superconducting electrical transmission line for the High-Luminosity LHC uses new materials, a new cooling system and unprecedented technologies
CERN is launching a new scientific education and outreach centre
A symposium at CERN celebrates four decades of physics research at the Laboratory’s North Area
Pentaquarks, charmed beauty particles and more from the Moriond conference’s second week, which is devoted to studies of the strong nuclear force
The AEgIS collaboration at CERN has found a new way of making long-lived positronium atoms for antimatter gravity experiments
The ATLAS Collaboration has reported the observation of light-by-light scattering with a significance beyond eight standard deviations
The latest CS3 conference, a key event for the cloud storage community, was held in Rome at the end of January
CERN will host a scientific symposium to celebrate 40 years of physics with the SPS
Researchers from the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider are developing a new application based on one of the experiment’s particle detectors