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A new doctorate school operated by INFN and connected to the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy has opened the call for PhD applications
In 1993, a new series of physics schools began in Europe, organized jointly by CERN and JINR
CERN is organizing a two-day coding event to recreate the line-mode browser
Belgian high-school students team up with a Dutch comic-book artist to create a comic about the fascinating world of subatomic particles
A series of ATLAS Virtual Visits this week are inspiring physics students in North Africa
In this animated lesson for TED-Ed, CERN physicists David Barney and Steven Goldfarb use the Socratic method to explain the Higgs boson
Where is the missing antimatter? CERN scientist Rolf Landua teams up with TED-Ed animators to explain the disparity that allows us to exist
CERN head of communications James Gillies teams up with TED-Ed animators to bring you this animated explanation of the matter we can't see
Tim Smith of the CERN IT department teams up with TED-Ed animators to explain how CERN has tackled its Big Data challenge over the years
Watch a webcast of the inaugural TEDxCERN event at CERN today, which will see talks on topics from seafloor earthquakes to the Higgs boson
Today Androulla Vassiliou is visiting CERN to meet young researchers supported by the EU Marie Curie Actions
LHC experiments release a scattering of Higgs-candidate data to the public