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Lecture at 7pm 4 July in the CERN Globe of Science and Innovation to mark the start of Bill Fontana’s Collide @ CERN residency
The June 2013 issue of Accelerating News, a quarterly publication for the accelerator community, is available
The toy company LEGO will consider building a miniature ATLAS detector after the design gained 10,000 votes on a fan website
Good news for CERN as Council approves the budget for 2014 and the Medium Term Plan
CERN, ERF and ESS launch the second workshop on energy management in research infrastructures
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
