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The Fund won one award for Best Risk Management Solutions, and another for Industry Innovation
October's Wilton Park meeting brought CERN physicists together with philosophers and theologians. The report from the meeting is now available
Record number of 2,748 proton bunches injected into the LHC giving a record beam intensity of around 2.7 x 10^14 protons in both beams
Following CERN's accession to status of observer to the UN General Assembly, Rolf Heuer met with Ban Ki-moon in New York
Remarkable first three-year LHC run crowned by a new performance milestone
Remarkable first three-year run of LHC comes to an end, marked by the LHC controllers with a Douglas Adams reference
Remarkable first three-year run of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator crowned by a new performance milestone
Today the United Nations General Assembly in New York adopted a resolution granting CERN observer status
Hall 300, which houses CERN’s first accelerator, is being prepared to host a new exhibition
Nine students from Kandinsky College in Nijmegen in the Netherlands, visited CERN as part of a school trip to learn about particle physics
On 19 January 2013 CERN will host a Raspberry Pi "Jam" for people to experience tinkering and programming on the diminutive computer
Highlights included sensitive searches for new physics, the decay of a Bs meson, quark-gluon plasma and insights on the structure of the proton
