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Kate Kahle leads the Internal Communication team in the CERN communications group.
The third installment of the In Practice series examines what fuels experimental physicists to work together and analyse mountains of data
High-school students: you could win the chance to come to CERN and run a real experiment, register now
This weekend the Collider exhibition opens in Singapore, CERN's travelling exhibition continues in Spain and Georgia enjoys CERN’s interactive tunnel
THE Port hackathon tackled humanitarian problems ranging from low-cost infant incubators to burst-safe air-drop bags for food
Researchers being encouraged to coordinate their online communications with CERN - but why?
The hashtag #MyCERN60 gave CERN people and CERN’s followers on social media the chance to wish CERN a happy 60th birthday
In CERN’s 60th year, the first proof of the existence of the Higgs boson earns a Guinness World Record for CERN, ATLAS and CMS
Masters students have just six months to turn CERN detector technology into useful innovations, from wearable sensors to exoskeletons for the elderly
Two years on from the announcement, find out the latest results from the CERN experiments at the ICHEP conference
The two student teams – from Greece and the Netherlands – will carry out experiments at CERN in September. Watch videos from their winning proposals
Today the Collider exhibition, which began life at London’s Science Museum, launches in Manchester, UK, ahead of an international tour