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Could volunteer computing simulate as much data as the LHC generates? Researchers are setting out to answer this question during a 12-day trial
Issue 12 of Accelerating News, a quarterly publication for the accelerator community, is now available
"Wandering the immeasurable" – a 15-tonne sculpture next to the Globe of Science and Innovation – was inaugurated at a ceremony on Saturday
Two open meetings are taking place at CERN and Fermilab on forming an international Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility collaboration
A new documentary charts the progress of the physics-education project "Playing with Protons", a collaboration between CERN and a Greek primary school
People across the globe put their questions to CERN in an "Ask Me Anything" session on reddit, on the topic of "Open Science, Open Data & More"
Rolf Heuer writes his first blog entry in a series running over the next few weeks for Huffington Post
CERN signs agreement to provide technology and expert training for a new business-incubation centre in Thessaloniki
Don’t miss a Google+ hangout with last year’s winners and CERN scientists on 4 December 2014 at 5pm CET
An overview of the experiment written by physicists Monica Dunford and Peter Jenni has been published on the peer-reviewed website Scholarpedia
An article about ATLAS is the first in a series on experimental high-energy physics to appear on the peer-reviewed website
New CERN-KEK offices to increase the collaborative effort on accelerator R&D and construction projects