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On 19 July 1973, physicists working with the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN presented the first direct evidence of the weak neutral current
Today in Stockholm, two CERN collaborations will present measurements of one of the rarest measureable processes in physics
The first day of the European Physical Society's High Energy Physics conference saw precise measurements of several particles and particle decays
This week the IEEE recognized Robert Aymar and Herman ten Kate for their contributions to the field of applied superconductivity
Experiments at CERN will present their latest results at two major conferences coming up over the next couple of weeks
Members of the CERN Fire and Rescue Service and the Swiss fire services took part in a training exercise to test new protective clothing
This week, CERN will be hosting a seminar entitled The music of physics and the physics of music at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Rock out to riffs and head-bang to the Higgs boson as CERN heads to the world-famous music festival in Switzerland
Work is progressing well on the new access and safety system being deployed across the accelerator chain
The penultimate stage of the 2013 Tour de France, the Annecy-Semnoz time-trial, has already been won – by a CERN staff member
The LHCb Collaboration has just published an important precise measurement of the Λb beauty baryon lifetime
Scientists in the US LHC Accelerator Research Program have successfully tested superconducting magnets needed to increase LHC collisions tenfold