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High-school student Charlotte Jones shares her experience of work experience at CMS
Physicists at CERN are busy preparing the T9 beam line to host experiments by the winners of the <em>Beamline for Schools</em> competition
In the summer of 1964, the results of an experiment studying neutral kaons at Brookhaven Laboratory took the particle-physics community by surprise
From apps for terrain elevation to online privacy, participants at the CERN Webfest 2014 tackled a host of issues
From apps for terrain elevation to online privacy, participants at the CERN Summer Student Webfest 2014 tackled a host of issues
The box office is now open for events in Geneva, Switzerland, this September to mark CERN's 60th anniversary
A team is on call 24 hours a day to monitor technical systems and quickly respond to alerts across CERN's accelerator complex
Today the ISOLDE installation restarted its physics programme with beams from the Proton Synchrotron Booster
The CMS Physics Analysis Toolkit (PAT) tutorial, the fifteenth edition of which ran from 30 June to 5 July, has come a long way
A paper from the AEgIS collaboration in today's Nature Communications explains an ingenious method for measuring the deflection of antiprotons
A small number of places are available to attend CERN's second TEDx event on 24 September - apply now!