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CERN will be celebrating its 60th anniversary this year - and Maria and Giuseppe Fidecaro have been at the laboratory since nearly the first day
With registration closed, the 455 teams must now make their case for why they should win the Beamline for Schools competition
Radiofrequency cavities built for the Large Electron Positron Collider are finding use on the SESAME project
Watch CERN's Director for Research and Scientific Computing Sergio Bertolucci speaking from Braga, Portugal, at 6pm CET
High schoolers from Europe and the US paid a recent virtual visit to CMS at CERN and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica
For Lluis Miralles Verge, infrastructures come second to the people behind them
Applications are open for the CERN summer student programme. Deadline is 31 January 2014 - just two days from now
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is holding the 12th Industrial Exhibition “Germany at CERN” today and tomorrow
Applications are now open for "Grid and Cloud Computing concepts and practical applications" in Varenna, Italy
On 27 January 1971 beams of protons collided in the Intersecting Storage Rings for the first time
Researchers who need to test parts for experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are taking advantage of Fermilab's Test Beam Facility
Registration for the FCC meeting in Geneva 12-15 February is now open - deadline 31 January