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Theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, has died on 14 March aged 76.
Ten students of entrepreneurship will spend five-week residency at CERN this summer
The Year-End Technical Stop drew to a close on 9 March. Read about the LHC plans the last year of Run 2
A new European project linking ELENA and ISOLDE plans to trap antimatter in order to explore quantum phenomena in radioactive nuclei
The Joint Universities Accelerator School in Archamps, France, has celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday
The first Rucio community workshop, held at CERN, brought together computing experts from several experiments and organisations.
As CERN’s winter shutdown draws to a close, watch this video to see what has been going on underground
Your computer and smartphone are the centre of your life and people with malicious intent are seeking to compromise them
A project called PUMA aims to transport antimatter from one CERN facility to another in order to investigate exotic nuclear phenomena
The world’s first Big Science Business Forum gathered 18 of the most advanced big-science organisations together to meet European companies
Five out of 1000 plus PhD students were rewarded for having the best theses on ATLAS physics
Join our scientists live from the Large Hadron Collider tunnel today, 28 February 2018, at 4pm on Facebook