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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!
The new ALICE Run Control Centre was inaugurated on the occasion of the collaboration dinner organized at Point 2 during a recent "ALICE week"
ICFA has issued a statement endorsing the particle-physics strategic plans produced in Europe, Asia and the US, and their globally aligned priorities
Come along to the 3rd CERN Summer Student Webfest on the weekend of 1-3 August
Teachers from the Middle East are working together at CERN’s High School Teachers Training Programme to produce lessons about SESAME
PhD students Juska Pekkanen and Nairit Sur recount their induction session for newcomers to CMS
Experiments in the East Area received their first beams from the PS last week. Theirs is CERN's first accelerator-based physics since LS1 began
The European Molecular Biology Organization was founded in July 1964, with the aim of setting up a CERN for molecular biology
