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EuroCirCol, the EC funded part of the FCC study that will develop the conceptual design of an energy-frontier hadron collider, has begun
From cloud chambers to 3D animations, physicists use a host of ingenious techniques to reveal subatomic particles too tiny to see
Watch Lillian Smestad of the AEGIS experiment in the FameLab international final today [UPDATE: Smestad wins second place]
The Large Hadron Collider is colliding particles at unprecedented energy, marking the start of the accelerator's second physics run
Follow all the action live on our blog "LHC Season 2: New frontiers in physics"
On 3 June, experiments at the LHC are set to collect their first physics data in two years, marking the start of the accelerator's second run
The CERN Data Centre has been upgraded to process the huge amounts of data generated by collisions during Run 2 of the LHC, which starts this week
Researchers being encouraged to coordinate their online communications with CERN - but why?
This week, IdeaSquare at CERN is one of the host sites for a global hackathon for open-science projects and tools
The MOEDAL, TOTEM and LHCf experiments are preparing to collect data from collisions in the LHC at 13 teraelectronvolts
Next week, the LHC experiments will start taking data for the LHC's second run. Find out how they used the long shutdown to upgrade their detectors
