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Like a lion waiting to ambush gazelles at a waterhole, malware can catch you by surprise.
Two teams of high-school students, from Poland and the UK, will travel to CERN in September to conduct experiments using a CERN accelerator beam
A new interactive game in Microcosm informs about hadron therapy – come and test it!
The High Energy Ladies, the CERN Yachting Club’s ladies’ team, were the first all-female team to complete the Geneva-Rolle-Geneva race
A member of CERN staff spotted the baby bird near a car in the Building 40 carpark, it is now homed with the centre for bird rescue
Pedestrians and cyclists can access the Prévessin site through a new automated gate on the "Chemin Moulin des Ponts”
Higher intensity beams are circulating in the LHC providing more and more collisions to the experiments
CERN conducted its fourth reddit AMA to discuss the recent release of 300 terabytes of data from the CMS collaboration
A new bi-annual “On Track” newsletter provides news and results from the AIDA-2020 European project and the wider detector community
The intensity ramp-up of the LHC beams resumed last Friday after the main powering system of the PS accelerator was put back in service
Renowned theoretical physicist Mary K Gaillard delivered a scientific seminar and presented her book “A singularly unfeminine profession” at CERN