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  • Helping CERN to benefit society

    Anne Richards describes the thinking behind a new foundation that is spreading CERN’s spirit of scientific curiosity

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  • Science for Good: Governance is the Key

    Incorporating sound scientific advice into governance structures is of of vital importance, says Rolf Heuer

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  • The SESAME laboratory: celebrating the power of light 

    Rolf Heuer on the project to build a synchrotron light source in the Middle East

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  • 60 more years of science for peace: carrying the message forward

    We can safely say that we’ve been successful in delivering the message of science for peace this year, says CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer

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  • CERN’s Large Hadron Collider gears up for run 2

    Geneva, 12 December 2014. CERN1 announced today at the 174th session of the CERN Council that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is gearing up for its second three-year run. The LHC is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world and the whole 27-kilometre superconducting machine is now almost cooled to its nominal

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  • CERN inspires primary-school students to Play with Protons

    A new documentary charts the progress of the physics-education project “Playing with Protons”, a collaboration between CERN and a Greek primary school

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  • A meeting at the United Nations on gender equality

    Engineer Laurette Ponce of the CERN Control Centre spoke of her career in science and technology at a recent UN meeting on gender equality

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  • On the road to Open Science

    The release of the Open Data Portal is a significant milestone on the road to Open Science, but there is work ahead

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  • CERN makes public first data of LHC experiments

    Geneva, 20 November 2014. CERN1 launched today its Open Data Portal where data from real collision events, produced by the LHC experiments will for the first time be made openly available to all. It is expected that these data will be of high value for the research community, and also be used for education purposes.

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  • LHCb experiment observes two new baryon particles never seen before

    LHCb experiment observes two new baryon particles never seen before

    Geneva, 19 November 2014. Today the collaboration for the LHCb experiment at CERN1’s Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of two new particles in the baryon family. The particles, known as the Xi_b’– and Xi_b*–, were predicted to exist by the quark model but had never been seen before. A related particle, the Xi_b*0, was

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