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Marilena Streit-Bianchi reminisces about her role in the first PET (positron-emission tomography) image taken at CERN
This release includes datasets that were used to discover the Higgs boson
On 15 December, the LHC experiments ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb reviewed their recent experimental results
CERN and INFN develop a transportable accelerator to help preserve cultural heritage
Arts at CERN has announced a new edition of the Collide International award, in partnership with the UK’s leading media arts centre, FACT
32 women working at CERN contributed to the fifth bi-annual "Expanding your Horizons (EYH) - Geneva" event at the University of Geneve
CERN celebrates 25 years since the beginning of the LHC experimental programme
Latest issue of Accelerating news now available
In October 2017 the CERN data centre broke its own record for data storage when it collected 12.3 petabytes of data over a single month
UK school groups have recreated the ATLAS detector in the gaming platform Minecraft
The fourth Energy for Sustainable Science Workshop took place in the end of November at the Extreme Light Infrastructure’s Magurele-Bucharest campus
Now that the successful 2017 run has ended, let’s take a look back at a year full of events
