Category: At CERN

  • Major European scientific organisations to take part in European Researchers’ Nights

    Geneva, 18 September – CERN, ESA, ESO and UNESCO, in partnership with the Italian Institute of Astrophysics (INAF), invite the public to participate in “Origins 2013”, an exceptional event to take place simultaneously in Geneva, Paris and Bologna on European researchers’ night, Friday 27 September. People from around the world can follow the event live

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  • Streamlining the path from physics to medicine

    CERN is to open a new office for medical applications

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  • CERN Open Days: bookings to visit the underground facilities are now being taken

    Geneva, 15 August 2013. From today, CERN1 will be taking bookings for visits of its underground facilities during the Open Days. From 9am to 8pm on 28 and 29 September, members of the public will have a rare opportunity to visit one of CERN’s underground sites. Two points of the Large Hadron Collider, CERN’s flagship

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  • Summer at CERN – a time to make friends

    This year CERN welcomed 276 summer students, including 133 from non-member states

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  • Summertime for physicists

    Summer for particle physicists is the season for “summer conferences” and the past week saw two big meetings in full swing

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  • Envisioning better health

    Manjit Dosanjh, CERN’s life sciences advisor and member of the Knowledge Transfer group, explains benefits of multidisciplinary conferences for health

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  • CERN experiments put Standard Model to stringent test

    Geneva, 19 July 2013. New results to be presented at the EPS-HEP conference in Stockholm, Sweden, this afternoon have put the Standard Model of particle physics to one of its most stringent tests to date. The CMS and LHCb experiments at CERN’s1 Large Hadron Collider will present measurements of one of the rarest measureable processes

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  • CERN experiments to present latest results at summer conferences

    Geneva, 17 July 2013. Scientists working on CERN1 experiments are preparing to present their latest results at summer conferences. This year, two major conferences are coming up over the next couple of weeks: the European Physical Society’s High Energy Physics conference, EPS-HEP 2013, which is being held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 18-24 July, and Strangeness

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  • UN observer status: A chance to re-engage

    Director-General Rolf Heuer on his first major UN forum since CERN was granted observer status

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  • CERN and EUROVISION unite to attract “tweens” to science

    Geneva, 11 July 2013. CERN1 and EUROVISION2 are awarding grants to two production companies to develop multiplatform media proposals to spark the scientific curiosity of “tweens” – children aged eight to twelve. “Children are the most remarkable example of curiosity,” said Sergio Bertolucci, CERN’s Director of Research and Computing. “We should not limit this curiosity,

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