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On 4 July 2017, the Republic of Slovenia became an Associate Member State of CERN in pre-stage to Membership
On the 5th anniversary of the Higgs discovery announcement, we asked you where you were when you heard this result
On 28 June for the first time in history, the LHC collided beams with 2556 bunches per ring
Five years ago, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations announced the discovery of the Higgs boson
2017’s summer students, welcome to CERN! Here is a small plea from the CERN Computer Security team to you and your supervisor
The KiCad software is more efficient than ever thanks to CERN’s contribution
A look back over the topics covered at FCC week 2017, held in Berlin
CERN and leading Italian business school SAFM will collaborate on entrepreneurship and management
For the second year, the LHCb collaboration awarded prizes to early-career scientists to recognize their outstanding contributions to the experiment
On Friday, 30 June, the civil-engineering work for Building 311 was completed, with the final delivery of the building expected by the end of 2017
The training course took place on 6-16 June 2017 in Sweden
On Thursday 29 June 2017, recently-recruited staff members and fellows participated in a session in the framework of the Induction Programme
