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Kate Kahle leads the Internal Communication team in the CERN communications group.
Are you a CERN person who uses social media? Be sure to read the CERN social media guidelines
With nearly 300 teams submitting proposals for the CERN “Beamline for Schools” competition, which one will win?
In CERN's 60th year, we look back at some of its historic moments. Here magnet coils for the Synchrocyclotron make their journey to Geneva in 1955
With registration closed, the 455 teams must now make their case for why they should win the Beamline for Schools competition
In this Hangout with CERN special, the laboratory conducts a Virtual Field Trip with the Google Science Fair
For CERN’s 60th anniversary in 2014, the laboratory is offering a chance to high-school students worldwide to carry out an experiment at CERN
Collider, a new exhibition about the LHC, opens in London this week. It will stay for 6 months before a planned international tour
A three-day symposium starting today in Bonn, Germany, celebrates the life of renowned physicist Wolfgang Paul
CERN is organizing a tweetup on Friday 27 September 2013, the eve of the CERN Open Days
US students were surprised during their physics lesson to be joined on a group video call by scientists in the ATLAS control room
Join the last Hangout with CERN of this series to talk about dark matter at 5pm (CET)
Behind the excellent results from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) lies the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid – a giant that never sleeps