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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
Watch François Englert explain the equations for the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism that gives particles mass, with the help of a blackboard
A particle accelerator from Heidelberg, Germany – the Test Storage Ring - may not be going into storage after all
At 11am CET, watch Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez present the latest measurements on single-top quark production from the CMS experiment
The High Expansion Foam System is the last line of defence against fire in the CMS cavern
In CERN's 60th year, we look back at some of its historic moments. Here magnet coils for the Synchrocyclotron make their journey to Geneva in 1955
The ATLAS Thesis Awards recognize young postdoctoral candidates who have contributed to the ATLAS experiment with an excellent PhD thesis
