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  • The GHOST in the machine

    New software based on CERN’s particle simulation toolkit Geant4 is being used to assess radiation doses in cancer treatment

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  • Summer at CERN – a time to make friends

    This year CERN welcomed 276 summer students, including 133 from non-member states

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  • Summertime for physicists

    Summer for particle physicists is the season for “summer conferences” and the past week saw two big meetings in full swing

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  • Envisioning better health

    Manjit Dosanjh, CERN’s life sciences advisor and member of the Knowledge Transfer group, explains benefits of multidisciplinary conferences for health

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  • CERN experiments put Standard Model to stringent test

    Geneva, 19 July 2013. New results to be presented at the EPS-HEP conference in Stockholm, Sweden, this afternoon have put the Standard Model of particle physics to one of its most stringent tests to date. The CMS and LHCb experiments at CERN’s1 Large Hadron Collider will present measurements of one of the rarest measureable processes

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  • CERN experiments to present latest results at summer conferences

    Geneva, 17 July 2013. Scientists working on CERN1 experiments are preparing to present their latest results at summer conferences. This year, two major conferences are coming up over the next couple of weeks: the European Physical Society’s High Energy Physics conference, EPS-HEP 2013, which is being held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 18-24 July, and Strangeness

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  • UN observer status: A chance to re-engage

    Director-General Rolf Heuer on his first major UN forum since CERN was granted observer status

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  • CERN and EUROVISION unite to attract “tweens” to science

    Geneva, 11 July 2013. CERN1 and EUROVISION2 are awarding grants to two production companies to develop multiplatform media proposals to spark the scientific curiosity of “tweens” – children aged eight to twelve. “Children are the most remarkable example of curiosity,” said Sergio Bertolucci, CERN’s Director of Research and Computing. “We should not limit this curiosity,

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  • LS1: “Safety, quality, schedule”

    Just as Olympic marathon runners have a motto, so the athletes of LS1 work to the mantra of “Safety, Quality, Schedule,” says Rolf Heuer

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  • How the internet came to CERN

    François Flückiger on his being inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame, and the story of how the internet came to CERN

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