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The CERN Procurement and Industrial Services group has been awarded the EIPM - Peter Kraljic Award for Innovation and Process Excellence
The award was presented for an Open Compute Project investigation into whether or not it could be sent out for public procurement
The AWAKE experiment has reached an important milestone in the development of a technique that could revolutionise particle accelerator design
Issue 19 of Accelerating News is now available online
A tripartite agreement between CERN, France and Switzerland reinforces cooperation between their respective emergency services
As the 2016 LHC run ends, the machine has transcended the dreams of its designers
ATLAS reports the first measurement of the W boson mass using LHC proton–proton collision data at 7 TeV
Rolf Heuer has been appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour)
Don’t let CERN’s memory be erased! Bring us your magnetic tapes on the life of the Laboratory to have them digitised
Crystal Clear was founded in 1991 to provide crystal detectors for particle physics – it has since had a wider impact on society
The IT department put under the Christmas tree a wide range of tools which likely improve the security of your data
On Monday 5 December 2016, recently-recruited staff members and fellows participated in a session in the framework of the Induction Programme
