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  • A reminder of the COVID-19 measures in place

    Our capacity to tackle COVID-19 depends on the efforts of everyone

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  • Hacking for humanity at CERN’s global Webfest

    Hacking for humanity at CERN’s global Webfest

    The second online edition of the Webfest brought together people from 63 countries to tackle challenges like wildfires, domestic violence and educational inequality

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  • The changing face of conferences

    The 2021 EPS-HEP conference was another online-only gathering, serving up a feast of physics to a record audience from 26 to 30 July. As conferences get back to being in person, there are lessons to be learned from the COVID conference experience

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  • Latvia becomes Associate Member State of CERN

    Latvia becomes Associate Member State of CERN

    CERN has been officially notified that the remaining steps for the entry into force of Latvia’s Associate Membership have been completed

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  • CERN and Pro Helvetia announce selected artists for the Connect residencies

    CERN and Pro Helvetia announce selected artists for the Connect residencies

    Arts at CERN and Pro Helvetia announce the selected artists for the first edition of Connect, an international artistic residency programme

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  • Steven Weinberg (1933 – 2021)

    Steven Weinberg (1933 – 2021)

    Steven Weinberg(1933 – 2021) — Steven Weinberg, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time, passed away on 23 July, aged 88. He revolutionised particle physics, quantum field theory and cosmology with conceptual breakthroughs which still form the foundation of our understanding of physical reality. Weinberg is well known for the unified theory of

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  • Two artworks and a school event inspired by CERN at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London

    Two artists are presenting their work inspired by their research at CERN at the V&A exhibition “Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser”

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  • Getting back to a diverse physics programme after LS2

    The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is back in operation after close to three years of intense maintenance and upgrades. With this milestone behind us, and with only the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) left to restart, it is hard not to be excited about getting back to physics after LS2. The SPS is the last link

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  • Paul Bossard (1936 – 2020)

    Paul Bossard (1936 – 2020)

    Paul Bossard(1936 – 2020) — It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Paul Bossard, a retired member of the CERN personnel who worked for several decades on the construction of magnets in the CERN accelerator chain together with their electrical systems. Paul originally came from the Swiss Canton of

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  • Live: from the ATLAS experiment

    Live: from the ATLAS experiment

    Join scientists live from the underground cavern of the ATLAS experiment tomorrow on social media

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