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An out-of-this world visit took place at CERN on 12 May
CERN attended the Royaume du Web event at Palexpo, a festival that gathered 10 500 YouTube enthusiasts
Girls in ICT Day confirmed what we already knew: girls and women are much needed in the information and communication technologies field
Fabiola Gianotti took part in a panel discussion about the role of women in science
The 200th ISS spacewalk included a new installation on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)
Mid-May has seen a big weekend for the cyber-threat landscape, as "WannaCry" came onto the scene with a bang
Adjustments to the thousands of pieces of equipment making up the LHC are ongoing before data taking can start for 2017
On Friday 12 May at 4:30pm CEST, we will be live on Facebook, from the CERN Data Centre, with three European astronauts answering your questions
New software allows you to visualise in 3D exactly what tracks particles leave inside the NA61/SHINE experiment
Drone freestyle and racing world class champion Chad Nowak came to CERN to record acrobatic footage
At a ceremony today, CERN inaugurated its linear accelerator, Linac 4, the newest accelerator acquisition since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
The CAST experiment at CERN announces new limits on the properties of axions, exotic particles that are candidates for dark matter
