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The staff members having reached 25 years of service at CERN in 2017 were invited by the Director-General to a reception on 24 November
CERN is helping to align and test a 350-metre column to produce extra-pure argon for a dark-matter search experiment
International Cosmic Day takes place for the sixth time on 30 November with high-school students from around the world investigating cosmic rays
During the 2017 LHC special runs, the LHCb experiment collected proton-proton and proton-neon data simultaneously for the first time
Having docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 August 2015, CALET is carrying out a full science programme
Heather Wark, University of Liverpool, joined the High-School Students and Teachers Programme when she was 17, now she returns the opportunity
The last components of AWAKE – its electron source, electron beam line and electron spectrometer – have just been installed
A look back at the milestone papers CMS has published since its beginning
Applications are now open for CERN’s international summer programmes for high-school students and high-school teachers
Scientists at CERN’s ISOLDE facility have helped confirm that Nickel-78 is doubly magic by examining its nuclear neighbour, copper-79
All primary and secondary students and teachers can participate - in their own language with prizes for you & your classroom
New septum magnets will send the beam to the four rings of the PS Booster after the Long Shutdown 2