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Improvements are coming to CERN’s Wi-Fi service as connectivity is improved in offices, restaurants and meeting rooms
The LHCb collaboration announces the observation of four “exotic” particles from its analysis of the LHC data
The new linear accelerator, which from 2020 will be the first link in the accelerator chain, has entered a new stage of its commissioning
The LHC has chalked up a series of new records, providing its experiments with a torrent of new data
CERN celebrated the fourth anniversary of the historical Higgs boson announcement with special pizzas
CERN Clubs Coordination Committee and CERN Staff Association host the ASCERI Mini Atomiades June 2016
For the next couple of weeks, you will be able to breathe in the free academic world of CERN. But academic freedom also comes with responsibility
This year’s TEDxCERN invites you to satisfy curious minds worldwide by hosting a webcasting event
To celebrate the fourth birthday of the Higgs boson announcement CERN invites you to make your own particle-based pizza
Issue 17 of Accelerating News, a quarterly publication for the accelerator community, is now available
The ICARUS detector is being refurbished at CERN, before being sent to the US in search of sterile neutrinos
A new citizen science project gives sofa-scientists the chance to search for previously undiscovered particles