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The LHCb experiment finds intriguing anomalies in the way some particles decay
The accelerator chain and the experiments that it serves are gradually awakening after the extended year-end technical stop (EYETS)
New projects will be installed and commissioned at ATLAS and CMS to detect photon - photon collisions before the LHC restarts in May this year
The Etat de Genève, CERN and the Commune de Meyrin announce the start of work on the Esplanade des Particules in Meyrin
Almost ready: the LHC and its injectors are starting up one after the other
What is a good measure of the activity of the Technical Infrastructure team? The number of phone calls
The award is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize" of computing
Browsing the World Wide Web is not as easy as it seems…
CERN participated in the Geneva Global Goals innovation Day to engage with the public and show CERN tackles UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
A round up of the upgrades and maintenance during the 2016/2017 extended year-end technical stop
Applications are now open for CERN’s 40th School of Computing. The CSC 2017 will take place from 27 August to 9 September 2017 in Madrid, Spain
The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) organised a specialised course on Beam Injection, Extraction and Transfer in Erice, Sicily from 10 to 19 March 2017
