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Not only has the LHC reached its 2017 production target ahead of schedule, it has also doubled its design luminosity
We meet some of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows, on the 150th anniversary of the exceptional scientist’s birth
During a seminar at CERN, Klaus von Klitzing, the 1985 Physics Nobel Laureate, explained how the definition of the kilogram will be revolutionised
CERN develops new technologies that have applications not only in particle physics experiments, but also in the aerospace industry
Twenty years ago, in 1997, CERN set up a reinforced policy and team to support its knowledge- and technology-transfer activities
A new user facility, the CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research (CLEAR), hosts accelerator research and development projects
On 16 November at 18:00, a premiere screening of the film "The Sense of Beauty" will take place in the Main Auditorium
While 31 October may mean Halloween to some, to laboratories around the world it means Dark Matter Day
With 19 days still to go, the LHC has reached its 2017 production target, delivering more than 45 inverse femtobarns to the experiments
In the real world, we have become accustomed to acting securely, but we struggle to keep our computers up to date such that basic digital protections
ATLAS finds evidence of the Higgs boson produced in association with a pair of top quarks
Partially ionised xenon atoms have been accelerated in the SPS to test a new gamma-ray source concept