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  • Arts at CERN celebrates its 10th anniversary

    Arts at CERN celebrates its 10th anniversary

    The celebrations kick off with the launch of a podcast series that brings artists and scientists into conversation

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  • Computer Security: Wrong link, wrong login, and BOOM

    Computer Security: Wrong link, wrong login, and BOOM

    Clicking on a malicious link or attachment, or disclosing your password in reply to a malignant email or on a fake and nasty CERN Single Sign-On page, are two major attack vectors for the evil side to infiltrate CERN

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  • The Schools Challenge: time to open the boxes!

    The Schools Challenge: time to open the boxes!

    On Friday, 13 May, local primary schoolchildren attended an event in the Globe of Science and Innovation to reveal the contents of boxes they had carefully prepared as a challenge for CERN’s scientists

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  • A year dedicated to celebrating basic science

    A year dedicated to celebrating basic science

    In July 2022, a whole year devoted to celebrating basic sciences for sustainable development gets under way

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  • Pre-registration for the Higgs anniversary symposium is now open

    Pre-registration for the Higgs anniversary symposium is now open

    The 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson’s discovery will be marked by a symposium on 4 July celebrating a decade of Higgs boson physics, discussing the latest results and looking to the future

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  • Environmental awareness: managing and optimising CERN’s electricity consumption

    Environmental awareness: managing and optimising CERN’s electricity consumption

    Use less, increase efficiency, recover more

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  • KT fund and MA budget: bridging the gap between CERN research and society

    KT fund and MA budget: bridging the gap between CERN research and society

    Apply to the Knowledge Transfer (KT) fund and Medical Application (MA) budget if you work on a technology that could be applied outside of high-energy physics

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  • CLOUD discovers new way by which aerosols rapidly form and grow at high altitude

    CLOUD discovers new way by which aerosols rapidly form and grow at high altitude

    The resultant particles quickly spread around the globe, potentially influencing Earth’s climate on an intercontinental scale

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  • ALICE makes first direct observation of a fundamental effect in particle physics

    ALICE makes first direct observation of a fundamental effect in particle physics

    The observation provides direct experimental access to the mass of an elementary particle known as the charm quark

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  • CERN moves closer to achieving full open access

    Since 2014, CERN has required that all peer-reviewed primary research articles from CERN authors are published open access (OA), i.e. freely available for anyone around the world to read and re-use with appropriate attribution. This policy reflects the moral imperative of CERN as a publicly-funded organisation – supported by contributions from its Member States –

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