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Responding to an article in the Economist, CERN Director-General Rolf heuer writes that science maintains "a self-critical eye"
A calendar of events is planned for CERN's 60th anniversary celebrations in 2014
The Langton Star Centre at the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in the UK has just joined the MoEDAL experiment
The ATLAS experiment at CERN has found evidence for the Higgs boson decaying to fermions: two tau particles, to be precise
The ATLAS experiment at CERN has found evidence for the Higgs boson decaying to two tau particles
In a photo essay shot at CERN, photographer Andri Pol beautifully captures scenes from our community – from the high-tech to the mundane
For CERN’s 60th anniversary in 2014, the laboratory is offering a chance to high-school students worldwide to carry out an experiment at CERN
When night falls over CERN, a team of X-ray experts go underground to perform tests on the Large Hadron Collider
The dismantling and extraction of a defective DFBA module from LHC Point 6, has been completed without a hitch
On 14 November, the first H- beam was accelerated to the energy of 3 MeV in Linac 4
A report released today rates CERN as the most effective international organization on Twitter
Today at 11am CET, Chamkaur Ghag of University College London will present the first results from the LUX Dark Matter experiment. Watch the webcast
