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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
The LHCb has announced a precise measurement of the unitarity triangle angle β
Sergio Bertolucci presents CERN's strategy for neutrino physics today at 11am. Watch the webcast
The CCC is the nerve centre of the CERN beam systems. The people at the five consoles work 24/7 to get everything ready for Run 2
Student teams have just one month to submit their proposals to conduct an experiment at a working CERN beamline
Vote online now for a Lego replica of the LHC, created by an ATLAS PhD student
Watch a timelapse video of the huge LHC detectors ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb preparing to start up again
