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Are you a student interested in working on advanced IT projects at CERN? Applications are now open for 2016’s CERN openlab Summer Student Programme.
The two experiments will present their new results at the 13 TeV energy frontier
The InterActions collaboration has selected its top six photographs in the ‘Global Physics Photowalk’ competition
Youngest person to receive grid certification uses computing power to analyse satellite data
All the talks from TEDxCERN 2015 from using virtual reality in education to surfing wakefields, are now available online
In this week's Bulletin find out how bent crystals were tested in the LHC to channel and deflect the beam
CERN test magnet reaches a record-breaking goal of 16.2 tesla field, paving way for future accelerator designs
Issue 15 of Accelerating News, a quarterly publication for the accelerator community, is now available
Linac 4 now reaching milestone energy of 50MeV to act as replacement for ageing Linac2, before taking over at head of accelerator chain in 2020
The accelerator is colliding leads ions at an energy about twice as high as that of any previous collider experiment
A new Knowledge Transfer network website and newsletter encourages businesses and researchers to share tech, expertise and interests
The Large Hadron Collider today collided protons at lower energies than usual to pave the way for studying lead-ion collisions
