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CERN physicists joined composers and musicians to rock out with the universe at the Montreux jazz festival this week
The CERN Education group offers help and resources to prepare your students for a trip to CERN
The LHCb experiment has presented the results of a study of strange beauty meson B0s decay into an anti-charm meson D0, a K- meson and a π+ meson
Each year in spring the International Particle Physics Outreach Group organizes the International Masterclasses
Michail Bachtis presents all the latest from CMS. Watch the webcast from 11am CET
Scientists with ALICE have been awarded the European Physical Society's Lise Meitner Prize for their work on quark-gluon plasma
300 pupils aged 9 to 12 organised a knowledge exchange workshop based on the “Be a Physicist” project
Miguel Jimenez to head CERN-ITER collaboration steering committee
Students in the UK have launched LUCID - a cosmic-ray detector incorporating parts developed at CERN - into space
The cooling of the LHC is advancing quickly, with the second sector having now reached 200 K
At ICHEP in Valencia, Spain, all four LHC experiments presented new results from the LHC’s first run. Run 2 physics holds much promise
