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CMS Virtual Visits provide remote participants an opportunity to experience the CMS Experiment. Why not take a tour from the comfort of your school?
Without a doubt, it is a Higgs boson, but is it the Higgs boson of the Standard Model? Run 2 of the LHC find out, says theorist John Ellis
A series of fascinating lectures about the Sun will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 10 to 14 November
Reports from just a few of this summer’s conferences
This year, World Science Day for Peace and Development focuses on quality science education and aims to engage public debate on scientific issues
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
