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On Saturday at 8.25am the crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the LHC, ending the machine’s first three-year running period
From photonic crystals to fibre-optic sensors, the KT Fund is supporting new initiatives to disseminate technology to society
The CERN Data Centre has collected more than 100 petabytes of data – equivalent to roughly 700 years of full HD-quality movies
At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, ending the machine’s first three-year run
The CERN Courier is now available as a PDF edition
Sound artist Bill Fontana recorded his first soundscapes at CERN on a 4-day induction visit preceding his residency
ROOT users' workshop 11-14 March 2013 in Saas-Fee, Switzerland (abstract deadline 25 Feb; registration deadline 7 Mar)
An international team of collaborators are manipulating 'fat' antiatoms at the AEgIS experiment at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator
The 'inverted' School of Computing (iCSC) at CERN from 25 to 26 February 2013 will allow former students to take a turn at lecturing
As the first and last proton-lead run of 2013 draws to a close, the maintenance programme of the LHC's first long shutdown (LS1) is about to start
