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Registration for the FCC meeting in Geneva 12-15 February is now open - deadline 31 January
Are you passionate about communicating about science? Take part in this year's FameLab Swiss heats to be held at CERN on 27 March
In this CERN Courier article Roger Barlow recalls the ideas that motivated the Particle Physics Masterclasses in the UK, back in 1996
Applications to the 2014 school, which will be held in the Netherlands, are open until 21 February
A former CMS physicist turned British Army officer is putting college science syllabuses under the microscope in Kabul, Afghanistan
Sudeshna Datta-Cockerill takes over from Vincent Vuillemin as the CERN Ombuds
The ASACUSA experiment at CERN has succeeded for the first time in producing a beam of antihydrogen atoms
In this Hangout with CERN special, the laboratory conducts a Virtual Field Trip with the Google Science Fair
Aaron Richard Angerami of Columbia University in the US presents "Soft and hard probes of high-temperature matter with the ATLAS experiment"
This week LS1 successfully passed an important milestone: the first pressure test of a complete sector, sector 6-7
For the former head of the Technology department, the new year brings a new start as CERN’s Director for Accelerators and Technology