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  • Laying the foundations for a solid future

    On 21 June, we laid the symbolic foundation stone of the Science Gateway: an occasion to show the great progress that is being made towards CERN’s new learning centre. Speakers at the ceremony, including the President of the Council making her presentation from the Pompidou Centre in Paris, used the occasion to underline CERN’s values

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  • LIVE: From the CMS experiment

    LIVE: From the CMS experiment

    Join scientists live from the underground cavern of the CMS experiment today on social media

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  • A warm welcome back to our visitors

    On 1 June 2021, CERN restarted a number of activities for the public after having had the doors closed for visits and events due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Two high-school teams from Italy and Mexico win the CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    Two high-school teams from Italy and Mexico win the CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    Two teams of high-school students from the Liceo Scientifico Statale “A. Scacchi” (Bari, Italy) and the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria “Plantel 2” (Mexico City, Mexico) have won the 2021 edition of the Beamline for Schools competition

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  • CERN lays first stone of Science Gateway

    CERN lays first stone of Science Gateway

    Today, CERN held a first stone ceremony for Science Gateway, the Laboratory’s new flagship project for science education and outreach

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  • Join us in launching CERN’s Year of Environmental Awareness on 24 June

    Last Saturday was World Environment Day, and a fitting occasion for us to launch CERN’s Year of Environmental Awareness, an initiative allowing everyone involved with the Laboratory to discover CERN’s work in the field of environmental protection, and to find out how we can all contribute. We are launching the initiative in 2021 for good

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  • Alexander Dmitrievich Kovalenko (1945 – 2021)

    Alexander Dmitrievich Kovalenko (1945 – 2021)

    Alexander Dmitrievich Kovalenko(1945 – 2021) — It is with great sadness that we have learned that Russian physicist Alexander Dmitrievich Kovalenko has passed away at the age of 76. Alexander had been assistant director of the LHE (Laboratory of High-Energy Physics) for the accelerator complex and ongoing experiments at JINR (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

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  • FASER catches first candidate collider neutrinos

    FASER catches first candidate collider neutrinos

    The result paves the way for studies of high-energy neutrinos at current and future particle colliders

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  • A pragmatic COVID scale system

    Much work has gone into CERN’s COVID scale and accompanying measures, which will be introduced on 1 June. The overriding objective of the new system is to provide better visibility on the measures that will be applicable at CERN in the coming months. These measures will guide several aspects of life at CERN, from telework

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  • Luc Pape (1939 – 2021)

    Luc Pape (1939 – 2021)

    Luc Pape(1939 – 2021) — It is with great sadness that we announce that our colleague and friend Luc Pape passed away on 9 April 2021 after a brief illness. Luc's long, rich career covered all aspects of our field, from the early days of bubble chamber (BC) physics in the 1960s and 1970s to

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