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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
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
