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Discover the new aerial photos of CERN taken by drone at gis.cern.ch. You’ll be amazed by the level of detail
More than 450 physicists and engineers took part in the first workshop to define CERN’s experimental programme from 2020 onwards
At a seminar at CERN today, Ron Heeren describes how CERN’s Timepix read-out chip might in the future be found in surgery rooms
By responding to a survey about how you travel to, from and around CERN, you will help new mobility proposals to be drawn up
One major source of revenue on the Internet is advertisements. Interestingly, not only honest companies have embarked on online advertising...
A year after the discovery of a new doubly charmed baryon, LHCb announces the measurement of its lifetime
At a seminar at CERN today, Nobel Prize winner Samuel Ting will deliver the latest results from the AMS experiment
Virtual visits give CMS collaborators in Seoul chance to introduce students to particle physics
A look back at the milestone papers CMS has published since its beginning
On the 5th anniversary of the Higgs discovery announcement, we asked you where you were when you heard this result
CMS high-luminosity LHC upgrade requires new silicon sensors, to better distinguish between particles from multiple collisions
Don’t miss the metrology laboratory’s open day on 6 June when its state-of-the-art tomograph will be on display
