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Julie Haffner of the CERN press office and her team, the Gex Twirling Club, won the International Baton Twirling Cup in Amsterdam last month
Apply for a lottery for tickets to see the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Alan Parsons Live Project live at CERN
The latest addition to the Pension Fund's push for transparency is the publication of the Annual Investment Report on the Pension Fund website
At the LHC, the SMACC project’s consolidation train has just entered Sector 7-8, the third sector to be consolidated
Two media projects, developed with funds from CERN and EUROVISION, are taking fundamental physics to 8-12 year olds. Watch the trailers
Certain roads around CERN’s two main sites will be closed to traffic and a system of free car parks and shuttles will be available
Registration is now open for the 5th International School of Trigger and Data Acquisition in Budapest, Hungary, in January 2014
The LHComedy event drew a crowd from 105 different countries and became the most watched CERN webcast since the Higgs discovery
A key observation at the LHC marks a major milestone in a 30-year-long journey
Version 1.2 of the laboratory's open hardware licence is lighter on the users
