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Tim Bell of the IT department explains the role OpenStack plays in enabling CERN to flexibly tailor its computing resources to meet demand
CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer will be speaking from 10am in the Main Auditorium today
Higgs boson decays, a Nobel prize for Higgs and Englert and a huge Open Days event were among the big stories at CERN this year
The excellent progress of the maintenance work on CERN's accelerators, which is overwhelmingly on schedule, was praised by the CERN Council last week
ATLAS is improving its trigger system to be able to select even more collision events with potentially interesting physics
Fifty years ago today, the first beam circulated in the small machine that set CERN on course to the Intersecting Storage Rings and the LHC
Recent results on Pb-Pb and p-Pb Ultra Peripheral Collisions will be presented. Watch the webcast at 11am CET
Two days of virtual visits to CERN mark the launch of Media Labs in nine public libraries across Greece
Updates from the EuCARD, TIARA, and HiLumi projects in Issue 8 of Accelerating News. Now available online
CERN is set to admit Israel as the Organization’s 21st Member State
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