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With new precision measurements of the Higgs boson, ATLAS has observed its decay to two W bosons.
Some 175 pupils from the Pays de Gex and the Canton of Geneva took part in a colloquium entitled "La science en partage” (‘shared science’)
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim is hosting CERN's third centre for technology-transfer opportunities
To celebrate European Researchers Night 2014, CERN researchers took their science to downtown Geneva and neighbouring France with “PopScience”
TEDed and CERN physicist Chloé Malbrunot team up to test the principle of universality of free fall for antimatter
Applications to the 2015 school, which will be held in Ibarra, Ecuador, are open until 14 November
As of 2015, 95% of CERN-authored high-energy physics articles will be published Open Access in high-quality peer-reviewed journals
CERN is modernising its safety policy and organisational structure in matters of Safety
TEDed and particle physicist at CERN Jasper Kirkby come together to animate the effect of clouds on the Earth’s climate
On Wednesday, 10 September, the last NA62 straw tracker chamber was lowered into position in the experiment
The hashtag #MyCERN60 gave CERN people and CERN’s followers on social media the chance to wish CERN a happy 60th birthday