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British primary-school students visited CERN this week as part of a campaign to inspire children for high-tech jobs of the future
The Beams department and the Knowledge transfer group met for a day to identify promising technologies to transfer to industry and academia
The preparatory phase in the LHC which includes electrical and leak test is now completed
At the end of September we expect a huge number of visitors for the Open Days. Volunteers are the key to the event
The ISOLTRAP collaboration has measured the mass of exotic calcium nuclei using a new instrument installed at the ISOLDE facility at CERN
Astronaut Ernst Messerschmid's experience at CERN was an important factor in the process that led to his becoming one of the first Germans in space
The BASE experiment aims to take ultra-high precision measurements of the antiproton magnetic moment
EuCARD2 – an R&D project for next-generation accelerators – launched at a two-day workshop at CERN last week
On Saturday 15 June, a team from Google began the process of taking street images across all of CERN’s sites. They will return to finish the job
A ground-breaking ceremony today marked the start of construction of an extension to CERN's antimatter facility
A new doctorate school operated by INFN and connected to the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy has opened the call for PhD applications
The Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Hungary hosts a major extension of CERN computing resources