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According to TripAdvisor, CERN is Geneva’s top tourist attraction, welcoming almost 110,000 visitors per year
The ATLAS experiment at CERN released data from 100 trillion proton-proton collisions in the LHC in 2012
After two months at full throttle, the LHC is taking a short break to allow various studies of its operation
On 27 July, SESAME, the new synchrotron facility for the Middle East and neighbouring countries, announced its first call for experiment proposals
The production of the new niobium-tin cables for the high-performance superconducting magnets of the HL-LHC is now in full swing at CERN
A new bunch injection scheme from the PS to the SPS allowed the LHC to achieve a new peak luminosity record
As Romania has now become a Member State of CERN, Romanian scientists share their thoughts about this new era of partnership for their community
CERN firefighters are working with a research centre in the United States to develop more effective firefighting techniques
On 19 July, the world-famous, English rock band, Muse, visited CERN before taking centre-stage at Nyon’s Paléo Festival
On 15 July, CERN welcomed spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari
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Young Turkish student Baris Volkan Gürses visited CERN from 4 to 8 July after winning the prize in the 2015 European Contest for Young Scientists