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  • Open Access publishing initiative, SCOAP3, to start on 1 January 2014

    Geneva 5 December 2013. After intense preparations and consensus building, CERN1 has today confirmed that the SCOAP3 Open Access publishing initiative will start on 1 January 2014. With the support of partners in 24 countries2, a vast fraction of scientific articles in the field of High-Energy Physics will become Open Access at no cost for

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  • The Music of Physics – Third open competition, Collide@CERN Geneva 2014 award announced

    Geneva, 26 November 2013. CERN1, the City and The Republic and Canton of Geneva announce today the 2014 open competition for the Collide @ CERN Geneva artist in residency award2. The form of art for 2014 will be music, which has a special affinity with physics. “Many physicists at CERN are also musicians, because patterns

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  • Towards the next chapter

    The time has come for CERN to start seriously considering the options for its post-LHC future

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  • 3D-printing company joins CERN innovation centre

    3D-printing company joins CERN innovation centre

    A company that uses a 3D-printing technique to craft metal filters is the first to join the STFC CERN Business Incubation Centre in the UK

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  • Energy for sustainable science

    Frédérick Bordry, chair of the second workshop on Energy for Sustainable Science, on how CERN is contributing to the Sustainable Science conversation

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  • CERN Stakeholder Relations Office

    Scientists, politicians, the public, students, our neighbours, you: these groups of people all have a stake in CERN, and all are important to us

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  • CERN receives the Prince of Asturias Award

    Geneva, 25 October 2013. CERN1, along with Peter Higgs and François Englert, will today receive the Prince of Asturias Award for “the theoretical prediction and experimental detection of the Higgs boson.” CERN Director General Rolf Heuer will accept the prestigious prize on behalf of the Laboratory during a ceremony at Oviedo’s Campoamor Theatre in Spain.

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  • CERN announces the Accelerate@CERN programme

    Geneva, 22 October 2013. CERN is launching Accelerate @ CERN, its new country specific one month research award for artists who have never had a longer stay at a science laboratory before. It is the sister strand of CERN1‘s successful flagship artists residency programme, Collide @ CERN2. Both are part of Arts @ CERN, which

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  • CERN to host international conference on thorium technologies for energy

    Geneva, 17 October 2013. CERN1 is to host the Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13 on 27-31 October, 2013. The Conference will address the scientific and technical advances offered by thorium in alternative nuclear technologies for energy production and for the destruction of nuclear waste. ThEC13 is organized by iThEC2 (international Thorium Energy Committee, Geneva) and IThEO3

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  • A Nobel prize for particle physics

    Wherever you are in the global particle physics community, you too can feel a sense of pride in the achievement of a Nobel for Higgs and Englert

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