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The CMS collaboration reported the Higgs boson’s mass with a precision of about 0.1%
During a two-month test run that started at the end of September, Linac4 will send negative hydrogen ions up to the door of the PS Booster
If you take advantage of the plethora of software snippets, code excerpts, libraries and the like circulating on the Internet, don’t forget that there’s a risk: is the code safe? Bug-free? Maintained? And free of any malicious components?
CERN’s civil engineers are tackling the tunnelling challenges of a post-LHC collider
The story of how detector components ended up in medical imaging, in art restoration and even in space
One hundred and fifty people are hard at work upgrading the Large Hadron Collider’s superconducting magnets
A new run of the CLOUD experiment examines the direct effect of cosmic rays on clouds
Six CERN alumni who started their own companies share experience and information on how to move to entrepreneurship
Major renovation work is under way across the entirety of CERN’s electrical network to modernise certain key facilities
The final touches are being put to the new test facility to ready it for operation
The CMS collaboration has measured for the first time the variation, or “running”, of the top-quark mass
The second ProtoDUNE detector at CERN saw its first particle tracks in August