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CERN is organizing a tweetup on Friday 27 September 2013, the eve of the CERN Open Days
Check out all the activities – above and below ground – that you can visit at the CERN Open Days
Remember: There are many ways for CERN people to explore the laboratory, even for those not lucky enough to get an underground visit ticket
In an animated video for the Ted-Ed education network, Fermilab's Don Lincoln explains the Higgs field with an analogy about a cocktail party
Tomorrow a team from Google will continue the process of taking street images on CERN’s sites
The September issue takes a look behind the scenes at what underpinned the successful operation of the LHC during this first long run
A new video from LHCb lets you hear particles changing from matter to antimatter and back again
A site evaluation committee has recommended a location for the proposed International Linear Collider, if it is built in Japan
Data from LHC experiments will trigger visual effects in a new performance at the national opera house in Germany
Far-reaching insights of Italian physicist Bruno Pontecorvo had a big impact on particle physics
Physicists will lift the lid on their life and work at CERN through stand-up comedy at "LHComedy" on 30 August
Watch engineers move the final replacement dipole magnets into position on the Large Hadron Collider