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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
CERN is participating in ARIA, a project to build a 350-metre column to produce extra-pure argon to be used in a dark-matter search experiment
Sijbrand de Jong explains why even the busiest physicists can find time to help inspire and educate the next generation
Participants in the annual LHCreate workshop presented their most recent exciting ideas during a two-day event at IdeaSquare
Some 20 leading firefighters from 13 countries came to CERN from 15 to 19 November for a meeting of experts on fires involving hazardous materials
Software of high quality that is well programmed, with best-practice security principles in mind, is harder to exploit
The crab cavities, a new technology to brighten up the future, will play an important role in the High-Luminosity LHC
Would you be interested in working on an advanced IT project for two months during the summer? Apply to the CERN openlab Summer Student Programme
Before the LHC was shut down for the winter, the operators tested techniques under development for its successor, the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC)
The ALICE collaboration has released the measurement of the integrated production yield in heavy-ion collisions the anti-alpha particle