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The first Django Girls event in Geneva took place at CERN last weekend
The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Japan celebrates first turns and successful storage of beams in the SuperKEKB collider
A new Study Group aims to bring CERN people together to share knowledge about programming and collaborate on open-research projects
The two guest artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand will give a presentation in the framework of the Art@CERN programme
ESA are soliciting ideas from the broad scientific community for the competitive selection of new "Science Ideas"
This week the first of the 16 cells of SESAME’s storage ring was installed in the shielding tunnel in the centre’s experimental hall in Allan, Jordan
In this week's Bulletin find out how the amorphous carbon coating can be a solution to address the electron cloud issue in view of the HL-LHC upgrade
The third Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, AEPSHEP2016, to be held near Beijing, China, 12-25 October 2016, is open for applications
With plasma cell in place, CERN’s AWAKE experiment is one step closer to testing acceleration hundreds of times more powerful than current methods
In this week's Bulletin find out how the LIGO and Virgo collaborations announce the direct detection of gravitational waves
Experts in medicine, physics, biology and IT come together with the aim of advancing medical techniques
Congratulations to LIGO and Virgo for the first ever direct detection of gravitational waves
