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You can now use a smartphone app to pay at the restaurants and snack bars on the Meyrin site
The n_TOF collaboration has added an important piece to the puzzle of the cosmological lithium problem
The new cycle path between the Meyrin and Prévessin sites was officially opened on Friday, 14 October
This year, the Adobe Flash Player made it to number 1 in the charts of ways your PC or laptop could be compromised
See the images from the celebration to mark the end of phase 1 of HIE-ISOLDE
Three new calls have been opened for a South Korean, Croatian or Swiss artist
Success for the European Researchers’ Night, which attracted almost 600 visitors on 30 September
UNOSAT, a United Nations programme hosted at CERN, celebrates 15 years of vital support to humanitarian work
Follow TEDxCERN at one of the many live webcast locations, or tune in to the website on 5 November 2016
On 5 October 2016, Ukraine became an associate member State of CERN after the ratification by its Parliament of the agreement
The agreement will improve the company’s industrial control and automation systems thanks to a software enhancing its visualization capabilities
The Technical University of Dortmund (Germany) is the first university to use ATLAS data in a lab course
