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The Large Hadron Collider has established a new record of luminosity, delivering a huge amount of data to its experiments
Laura Couto Rosado sees CERN as an ideal place to be inspired by science and to produce new works of art
AcceleratAR uses paper cubes and an augmented reality app to simulate a particle accelerator to help students learn about particle physics
Hélène Langevin-Joliot, physicist and granddaughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, will give a lecture at CERN on 29 June 8.30 p.m. – follow the webcast!
CERN-led project on smart radon sensor was selected for the final round of the MassChallenge 2017 Start-up Accelerator Programme
New magnets designed for the High-Luminosity LHC - the Large Hadron Collider upgrade project – are in the prototype phase
After Howie Day heard a parody of his 2004 single “Collide”, he flew to Switzerland to sing it at the LHC
The new quadrupole magnets designed for the insertion regions for the LHC upgrade exploit cutting-edge technological innovations
As the last step before the intensity ramping-up, the week 23 was dedicated for the scrubbing of the beam pipes
On the 5th anniversary of the Higgs discovery announcement, we will publish your best Higgs stories
Great manoeuvres have been undertaken by two neutrino detectors at CERN: ICARUS and Baby MIND
The Computer Security Team publishes its Digital Privacy Statement