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Discover how the accelerator technology is used to study art and archaeological artefacts
As 2017 begins, CERN looks forward to a year full of promise
2016 has been a year of great highlights for CERN and its experiments, this video looks back on the headlines
Eighteen staff members reached 25 years of service at CERN in 2016
BASE has kept a shot of antiprotons trapped for more than one year: it is the longest-lived, coldest, known baryonic antimatter object in the Universe
The ALPHA collaboration celebrate this week after twenty years of work resulted in them seeing, for the first time, antimatter's light spectrum
In a Nature paper, the ALPHA collaboration reports the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter
On 18 December 2016 the Sun aligned with the black hole in the centre of the Milky Way, allowing CAST to search for any exotic particles it might emit
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