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Matilda Heron was a writer in the CERN communications group during summer 2015.
Winners of the Beamline for Schools competition perform their experiments at CERN
This year the CERN Summer Student Programme welcomed 280 students from 83 countries
This year 280 summer students from 83 different countries took part in the CERN summer student programme
CERN has developed an accelerator just two metres long to be used in hospitals for medical imaging and the treatment of cancer
CERN researchers performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in the third annual workshop of ‘The physics of music and the music of physics’
This year’s European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2015) will be held on 22 – 29 July
MAPCERN users can now navigate many CERN sites with the new Google Street View feature
Google Street Views of many CERN sites are now available directly from Google Maps
Primary-school children from the “Be a scientist” project came to CERN to present their findings
Watch Lillian Smestad of the AEGIS experiment in the FameLab international final today [UPDATE: Smestad wins second place]