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A CERN Tweetup inspired artist Lucy McKenna to create pieces for an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bell's theorem
Help us to identify the subjects of pictures currently being digitized for the CERN archive
A paper by John Bell published on 4 November 1964 laid the foundations for the modern field of quantum-information science
At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization’s next Director-General
CRISTAL-ISE, the latest version of the data-tracking software from CMS, is now freely available for research and business
The UNOSAT programme uses CERN computing power to map areas affected by Ebola
All 17 talks and three TED-Ed animations from TEDxCERN 2014 are now available to watch online
The ATLAS and CMS experiments, together with the IceCube Experiment in the South Pole, hosted a virtual visit for high-school students
LHCb physicists have presented their final results from the LHC’s Run 1 for φs - the CP-violating phase in the Bs system
The SPS Operations team has been hard at work this month returning the machine to operation
Watch the celebrations, streaming live from the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 10am EDT
The Collider exhibition is about to start a three-year long international tour, starting in Paris at the Palais de la Découverte
