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Several programmes for students running this summer have benefited from the support of the CERN & Society foundation
Do you like listening to music while you work? What about watching videos during your leisure time at CERN?
A record 992 CERN people participated in the 2018 Bike to Work campaign
An image of the LHCb detector painted on the road into Point 8 will greet visitors to the site
Lead "atoms" with a single remaining electron swirl around the Large Hadron Collider
Officially set up in 1998, the teacher programmes bring hundreds of teachers to CERN each year
This year’s International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) took place in Seoul, South Korea, on 4–11 July
CERN’s ISOLDE facility has produced neutron-rich chromium isotopes, which have been weighed by the ISOLTRAP precision balance ISOLTRAP
The main LHC collaborations present their latest findings at ICHEP 2018
Welcome to CERN! For the next couple of weeks, you will be able to breathe in the free academic world of CERN
