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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
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