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This year, four CERN technical apprentices were awarded their "certificat fédéral de capacité"
One of the three border posts on the CERN site is back in its usual place. These posts bear testimony to fragments of CERN’s history.
Entrepreneurship students present ideas that leverage CERN technologies
What does ‘respect’ mean for you in your daily work?
Registration is now open for the CERN Accelerator School’s course on High-Gradient Wakefield Accelerators, to be held in Sesimbra, Portugal from 11 March to 22 March 2019
Intel’s new Myriad 2 chip underwent tests at CERN’s SPS
Google and Micron announce that they are joining CERN openlab at major US supercomputing conference
Half a century ago, theorist Gabriele Veneziano visited CERN and wrote a paper that wound up marking the beginning of string theory
In October, for the first time, crystal collimators were used to improve the performance of the beam cleaning process at the LHC during a physics run
A series of visits were organised in November to help discover horse-logging at CERN
The one-month 2018 heavy-ion run has just one week left to go
When using CERN resources, mining for professional purposes lacks any reasonable professional justification