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Five high-school students from Germany conducted their own research at CERN as part of the Netzwerk Teilchenwelt programme
Issue 22 of Accelerating News is now available
Live from IdeaSquare, CERN's innovation centre, from 13:00 on October 25 2017
The LHC had the unique opportunity of colliding xenon nuclei over several hours
The fourth edition of THE Port Humanitarian Hackathon took place at CERN’s IdeaSquare
Now attackers have started increasing the pressure, and now comes the next level: “Doxware”
Meet the two prototypes under construction at CERN for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
CERN and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) will work together in all domains of science, technology and engineering
The proposal for CERN to become a SESAME Observer will be presented at the SESAME Council session in December
Top marks for the Standard Model as LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS study the subtle behaviour of the heaviest particle
A mock-up fire emergency was organised at two of CERN’s biggest office buildings
The final students from the 2017 CERN openlab Summer Student Programme recently left CERN after nine weeks working on advanced computing projects
