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The LHC and its experiments are back in action, now taking physics data for 2016
The LHC went into standby on Friday last week following an electrical perturbation at point 8, caused by a small animal
Evaluation has begun of the 151 proposals submitted for the beamline for schools 2016 competition
The recommissioning of the LHC is going well: the machine has delivered first pilot Stable Beams collisions.
The Globe of Science and Innovation reopened its doors to the public on Tuesday, 19 April 2016, after almost a year of extensive renovations.
The second annual meeting of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) design study took place from 11 to 15 April in Rome.
In the physical world this is fairly clear...
The CMS collaboration makes 300 TB of high-quality data from the LHC available to the public through the CERN Open Data Portal
The first low-intensity stable beams have been declared in the LHC following the restart in March 2016
CERN launches a new website for visitors as Globe reopens to the public after extensive renovation
n_TOF, CERN’s neutron time-of-flight facility, is producing results that are important for nuclear astrophysics and novel nuclear-technology solutions
This week sees leaders in the fields of physics and engineering meet to discuss the future of particle accelerators
