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At the 2nd Annual Meeting of CRISP in Switzerland, CERN delegates discussed the IT challenges the laboratory faces to deal with LHC data
Engineers and technicians have started opening the 14,000-tonne CMS detector, to let detector physicists like David Barney get to work inside
In a ceremony on 24 March, the 2013 Edinburgh Medal was awarded to Peter Higgs and CERN
The second Collide @ CERN-Geneva prize goes to filmmaker Jan Peters, for his proposal to explore the world of CERN from a highly personal perspective
The ATRAP experiment presents most precise measurement yet of the antiproton magnetic moment
This month a beam of negative hydrogen ions was injected into the first accelerator module of Linac 4
A backstage look at the Large Hadron Collider during CERN's first long shutdown
In preparation for a physics run in 2015, the source for Linac 3 is being adapted to carry argon ions
The $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize was awarded last night to theorist Alexander Polyakov of Princeton University
Trainees in Intellectual Property management are meeting CERN experts to exchange knowledge and best practices
At a ceremony in Geneva hosted by actor Morgan Freeman, the winner of the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize will be announced
What happens when a love of CERN and literature meet?