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  • A noble cause

    Poignant is the word that comes to mind this week, a week in which we lost the last surviving founding father of CERN, François de Rose

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  • CERN and ESA sign cooperation agreement

    CERN and ESA sign cooperation agreement

    Geneva, 28 March 2014. At a ceremony today at Geneva airport, CERN1 and ESA signed a framework agreement for future cooperation on research and technology in areas of mutual interest. Future areas may include the development and characterization of innovative materials for applications in extreme conditions and for cutting-edge scientific performances, the development of new

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  • Spring cleaning for the CERN photo archive

    Uploading the CERN photo archive to CDS will provide an invaluable resource to the CERN community, says Alex Brown

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  • François de Rose (1910-2014)

    François de Rose (1910-2014)

    A founding father of CERN who went on to become President of the CERN Council from 1957 to 1960

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  • A busy week for science

    Rolf Heuer on a week that included BICEP2’s announcement on gravitational waves, Moriond, joint Tevatron-LHC results and a new director for TRIUMF

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  • International team of LHC and Tevatron scientists announces first joint result

    Chicago, USA and Geneva, Switzerland, 19 March 2014. Scientists working on the world’s leading particle collider experiments have joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab1’s Tevatron and CERN2’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), past and current holders of the record for most powerful particle collider on Earth. Scientists from the

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  • CERN celebrates 60 years of science for peace

    Geneva, 18 March 2014. CERN1 is celebrating 60 years of science for peace in 2014, with events at the Organization’s Geneva laboratory and in its Members States. Festivities will focus on two key events. The first is on 1 July at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, where the Organization’s 12 founding members established the CERN Convention

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  • Innovating in knowledge transfer

    Rolf Heuer on how basic research at CERN expands human knowledge, inspires the young and provides impetus to scientific and technical education

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  • CERN to host 4th edition of the CineGlobe International Film Festival

    Geneva, 13 March 2014. CERN1 is to host the CineGlobe International Film Festival from 18 to 23 March at the Globe of Science and Innovation in Meyrin. This 4th edition will present 66 short films inspired by science in competition, including fiction films and documentaries. Selected from a long list of over 1600 short films

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  • Minimising the muddle

    Peggie Rimmer was Tim Berners-Lee’s hierarchical “leader” in CERN’s Data and Documents division when he invented the World Wide Web

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