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An international team at the ISOLDE radioactive-beam facility at CERN has shown that some atomic nuclei can assume asymmetric, "pear" shapes
A new computer room housing 90 new racks of servers forms a significant expansion of the CERN Data Centre
Zenodo, hosted at CERN, will researchers to share publications and supporting data more easily
A new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious "ridge effect"
CERN head of communications James Gillies teams up with TED-Ed animators to bring you this animated explanation of the matter we can't see
Marc Abrahams, editor of the <em>Annals of Improbable Research</em> will be presenting the Ig Nobel show at the University of Geneva today
Physicists from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations explain how they came to identify the new particle of 2012 as "a Higgs boson"
Tim Smith of the CERN IT department teams up with TED-Ed animators to explain how CERN has tackled its Big Data challenge over the years
Watch a webcast of the inaugural TEDxCERN event at CERN today, which will see talks on topics from seafloor earthquakes to the Higgs boson
The inaugural TEDxCERN event at CERN today will see a plethora of talks on topics from seafloor earthquakes to the Higgs boson
How ALICE finds out how much of a heavy ion takes part in a collision
