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The Universe of Particles exhibition in CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation has won a certificate of excellence from the travel website TripAdvisor
Scientists from CERN examined the common ground between science, philosophy and theology at a Wilton Park meeting this week
Lison Bernet is the author of the cartoon strip "La BD du LHC", which she draws every month for LHC France
Anja Vest of the Technical University of Dresden presents recent results from ATLAS
Grand-prize winner Eric Chen visited the laboratory last week
Cool down of the Large Hadron Collider has already begun in preparation for research to resume early in 2015
Results reported by ATLAS and CMS discuss the decay of Higgs bosons directly to fermions, the particles that make up matter
For the first time in over 15 months, there are beams back in the Proton Synchrotron
Updates on EuCARD-2, ERC grants, and CRISP in Issue 10 of Accelerating News. Now available online
An organisation based at CERN provides satellite images and analysis to help relief and development teams on the ground in disaster areas
IPAC’14, the 5th International Accelerator Conference, has attracted more than 1500 accelerator experts this week to Dresden
Today all over France, students answered questions about CERN in their science exams as part of the Baccalauréat Général
