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CERN received the 2017 Award for Contribution to Science Communication to CERN from he Czech Republic’s Academia Film Olomouc
Call for interest in the next edition of the Humanitarian Foresight & Futures Co-creation
Computer security is a moving target and defensive measures need continual adaptations and adjustments
CERN establishes deeper relations with Finland during a day-long event in Otaniemi
Published in Nature Physics ALICE reports proton collisions sometimes present similar patterns to those observed in the collisions of heavy nuclei
The CAST experiment at CERN announces new limits on the properties of axions, exotic particles that are candidates for dark matter
For the first time this year, the LHC is circulating beams of protons, following a 17-week-long extended technical stop
CERN has set up three seismic monitoring stations to listen to the earth’s vibrations and their impact on the LHC
The powering tests of the LHC circuits are a big part of the machine re-commissioning: almost 1600 circuits have to be tested in just few weeks
In March, a primary school named “ALICE” was inaugurated in Prévessin-Moëns. The name was chosen as a tribute to the ALICE experiment at CERN.
“The Higgs boson does not exist!” stated an e-mail recently sent to many of our colleagues...
The Super Proton Synchrotron is the last accelerator that had to awaken before the restart of the Large Hadron Collider in 2017