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Today from 3pm watch the webcast of CERN and UN Geneva's roundtable discussion about the challenges of communicating science
Students at the Challenge Based Innovation course presented prototypes of platforms to simplify meetings and enhance learning in autistic children
On his first trip to CERN since sharing the Nobel prize in physics last year with Peter Higgs, François Englert talks Higgs bosons and supersymmetry
The 10th edition of the International Masterclasses in Particle Physics is expected to attract more than 10,000 high-school students worldwide
Newly elected ATLAS outreach co-coordinator Kate Shaw hopes to bring particle physics to students in developing countries
On the occasion of International Women's Day (8 March), voices from the CERN community share their views on diversity and collaboration
Source code from the popular software-development site GitHub can now be preserved and cited through the CERN-hosted online repository Zenodo
The start of the LAA project in 1986 propelled electronics at CERN into the era of microelectronics
The collimation system for the Large Hadron Collider's Run 2 will consist of a total of 118 ultra-precise devices
With the pressure tests now complete we are coming to the equally important phase of cleaning the machine
The first new PI-Mode Structure (PIMS) cavity for Linac 4 is under assembly at CERN
