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  • CERN celebrates 20 years of a free, open web

    Geneva, 30 April 2013. Twenty years ago CERN1 published a statement that made the World Wide Web (“W3”, or simply “the web”) technology available on a royalty-free basis. By making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to

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  • Twenty years of a free and open www

    Robert Cailliau on the birth of the web, early brainstorming sessions and “how to spread this thing”

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  • The open internet and the web

    Vinton G Cerf, one of the “Fathers of the internet”, on the architecture, connectivity and openness of the web

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  • LHCb experiment observes new matter-antimatter difference

    Geneva, 24 April 2013. The LHCb collaboration at CERN1 today submitted a paper to Physical Review Letters on the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays of the particle known as the B0s. It is only the fourth subatomic particle known to exhibit such behaviour. Matter and antimatter are thought to have existed in

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  • Our universe is yours

    The message we want to pass to our visitors on our open days, and at the inauguration of Passport to the Big Bang, is that “Our universe is yours”

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  • CERN to host its first TEDx

    Geneva, 16 April 2013. The inaugural TEDxCERN event will take place on 3 May 2013, under the theme ‘Multiplying Dimensions’, at the Globe of Science and Innovation with a Live Webcast at the CERN1 Main Auditorium and at http://tedxcern.ch homepage. Going beyond particle physics, the event, organized with the generous support of Rolex, will provide

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  • A bountiful spring harvest

    As CERN reaps a bountiful harvest from the LHC’s first three years of running, we are sowing the seeds for a bright future at our flagship facility

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  • AMS experiment measures antimatter excess in space

    Geneva, 3 April 2013. The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS1) today announced the first results in its search for dark matter. The results, presented by AMS spokesperson Professor Samuel Ting in a seminar at CERN2, are to be published in the journal Physical Review Letters. They report the observation of an excess

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  • The second Collide@CERN-Geneva prize is awarded to a film maker

    Geneva, 26 March 2013. CERN1 and the City and the Canton of Geneva awarded the second Collide@CERN-Geneva2 prize to the 47 year-old film maker Jan Peters3, for his proposal to explore the world of CERN from a highly personal perspective. Jan Peters has divided his time between Switzerland and his native Germany for many years.

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  • ATRAP experiment makes world’s most precise measurement of antiproton magnetic moment

    Geneva, 25 March 2013. In today’s Physical Review Letters, the Antihydrogen TRAP (ATRAP1) experiment at CERN2‘s Antiproton Decelerator (AD) reports a new measurement of the antiprotonmagnetic moment made with an unprecedented uncertainty of 4.4 parts per million (ppm). This result is 680 times more precise than previous measurements. The unusual increase in precision is due

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