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  • Looking back on a good year for physics

    With the accelerator complex having shut down for the year on 28 November, now is a good moment to take stock of the healthy position of our research. This year saw a wealth of new results across the programme. At the LHC, Run 1 and 2 data continue to deliver a rich seam of results.

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  • CAST-CAPP inches closer to axion dark matter

    CAST-CAPP inches closer to axion dark matter

    The CAPP axion haloscope at the CAST experiment has hunted for axions from the Milky Way’s “halo” of dark matter, and has narrowed down the theoretical space in which to look for these hypothetical particles

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  • Jean Mourier (1949 – 2022)

    Jean Mourier (1949 – 2022)

    Jean Mourier(1949 – 2022) — It is with great sadness that we announce the passing – at far too young an age, as all those who knew him will agree – of Jean Mourier, who worked at CERN from 1974 to 2009. He contributed to the Organization’s activities in various ways throughout his long career,

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  • CERN and Airbus partnership on future clean aviation

    CERN and Airbus partnership on future clean aviation

    CERN and Airbus UpNext sign a collaboration agreement to assess the use of superconducting technologies for future low-emission aeroplanes

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  • Computer Security: What’s under the tree?

    It’s time to review what Father Christmas and his elves, gnomes and reindeers, if you happen to believe in them, have put under the computer security tree

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  • From CERN to space: staff member selected to join the ESA 2022 astronaut class

    From CERN to space: staff member selected to join the ESA 2022 astronaut class

    Selected out of more than 22 500 applicants, CERN engineer Sławosz Uznański from Poland has been chosen as one of the 11 members of the ESA 2022 astronaut class in the reserve pool

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  • CERN, CHUV and THERYQ join forces for a world first in cancer radiotherapy

    CERN, CHUV and THERYQ join forces for a world first in cancer radiotherapy

    CERN, CHUV and THERYQ have signed an agreement for the development of a revolutionary FLASH radiotherapy device

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  • Outreach award for initiative to teach high-school physics with CERN detectors in Spain

    Outreach award for initiative to teach high-school physics with CERN detectors in Spain

    CERN microelectronics experts, secondary school teachers in Catalonia and researchers at the University of Barcelona have teamed up to facilitate the dissemination of Minipix detectors in Spanish secondary schools

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  • CERN staff member now ESA astronaut

    CERN staff member now ESA astronaut

    Congratulations to CERN staff member Slawosz Uznanski for making it to the new class of European Space Agency astronauts in the reserve pool

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  • Donald Perkins (1925 – 2022)

    Donald Perkins (1925 – 2022)

    Donald Perkins(1925 – 2022) — British physicist Don Perkins, who played a significant role in shaping the world of particle physics from the 1940s onwards, passed away on 30 October at the age of 97. After graduating from Imperial College, London, Perkins obtained a PhD under the supervision of Nobel Laureate George Paget Thomson. As

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