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The European Southern Observatory, founded on 5 October 1962, has close links with CERN
Representatives from 29 countries are meeting at CERN today to launch the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics
On 28 September over 250 young people aged between 13 and 18 spent a night visiting experiments and detectors at CERN, accompanied by researchers
The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid is taking on a mathematical conjecture first written down by Christian Goldbach in 1742
Twelve students from the east end of Glasgow visited CERN on a trip organized by the Ogden Trust
Applications are now open for eight conferences in topics from exoplanets to the Higgs boson
The polish physicist will serve for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2013
The project was awarded "Best Online Event" at an awards ceremony in Berlin, Germany, last week
ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb are looking ahead to the 20-month shutdown from February 2013
The switch - a test for a longer proton-lead run scheduled for January to February 2013 - presented numerous technical challenges
The came for motivation, for answers, and 'because it's CERN' – participants in the July 2012 programme share their experiences
