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45 students took part in the first Challenge-Based Innovation programme at CERN
The CALorimetric Electron Telescope is preparing for installation in the flight module that will bring it to its final destination on the ISS
Today the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented for the first time a combination of their results on the mass of the Higgs boson
The 5th edition of the CineGlobe International Film Festival celebrates the theme “Convergence”
The femtosecond pulses and astonishing peak brilliance of X-ray free-electron lasers are enabling whole new classes of experiments for imaging biology
Work continues apace for the high-luminosity upgrade for the LHC 10 years from now
Watch CERN engineers explain the work during the laboratory's long shutdown to prepare the LHC for running at 13 TeV
A new documentary made in collaboration with Arts @ CERN explores the overlap between photography and particle physics
At a web conference in Zurich, @CERN was awarded “Best Swiss Twitter Page 2015”
Particles were successfully injected into the LHC last weekend, passing through three sectors of the accelerator
The Operations team is testing the systems that deliver beams to the Large Hadron Collider in preparation for the start-up this month
Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli, who leads a research team in Morocco for the ATLAS collaboration, is among this year's laureates
