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With the IceCube and ANTARES telescopes completed, there was plenty to discuss at the second Workshop on Exotic Physics with Neutrino Telescopes
Work on the ALICE Photon Spectrometer will make it faster and more stable
This week, teams have started X-raying the cryogenic line to examine its condition in detail
When you've got a discrepancy in the data, it might be time for theory and experiment to collaborate
Help the AEgIS experiment at CERN to work out how antimatter is affected by gravity. Just join the dots!
Czech company JABLOTRON has released an educational toolkit based on CERN detector technology
Things are going well in all the laboratory’s accelerators
In less than a month three young scientists from ISOLDE's EC-SLI collaboration won awards at international conferences
Latest results from 10 years of proton–antiproton running
In Divonne-les-Bains, an association founded by former CERN personnel is restoring the oldest hydroelectric plant in France
The ALICE experiment is optimized to perform in the environment of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, which can produce thousands of particles
