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CERN celebrates Steve Myers’ career with a colloquium tomorrow at 2.30pm in the Main Auditorium
Nobel prize laureate Kostya Novoselov of the University of Manchester will talk about graphene today at 4.30pm CET. Watch the webcast
Testing on the LHC’s replacement RF cryomodule was completed last week in SM18
Don't miss a special screening for CERN people of the documentary Particle Fever in the Main Auditorium this evening
CERN’s Director General Rolf Heuer is in New York today to give input to the United Nations’ sustainable development planning
ALICE representatives signed an agreement with LIPI in Jakarta, and the Education Secretary for Bangladesh signed an Expression of Interest at CERN
The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) study is looking at silicon capacitors to help with power pulsing
At a ceremony today in Copenhagen, Denmark, CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer accepted the Niels Bohr Gold Medal on behalf of CERN
CERN today confirms that the Open Access publishing initiative SCOAP<sup>3</sup> will start on 1 January 2014
The CMS collaboration have measured the decay of the Higgs boson to pairs of bottom quarks and to pairs of tau leptons
Watch Ugo Amaldi of the Technische Universitat Munchen and the TERA Foundation talk about the history of accelerators that heal
Today at 11am CET, Monica Vazquez Acosta will present direct measurements of the Higgs Boson fermionic couplings at CMS. Watch the webcast