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Five tweeps visited CERN to take part in events held with STS-134 astronauts to commemorate the AMS detector's first year in space
Good performance followed recovery from extended luminosity calibration runs
Five winners of a competition announced on Twitter reached the vast audience during CERN's first ever Tweetup
Pier Oddone, director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, announced today that he would be stepping down
On 31 July, an unmanned Russian Progress spacecraft was launched from Kazakhstan, carrying five Timepix detectors to the ISS
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations today submitted papers to the journal Physics Letters B outlining the latest on their searches for the Higgs boson
CERN welcomed 279 young scientists from 71 nations this year on its Summer Students Programme
CERN's summer school attracts students from all over the world to learn alongside experimentalists and theorists
Lyn Evans, former Large Hadron Collider project leader, will lead the common effort for the next linear collider as Linear Collider Director
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the ISS has been taking data for a year. The shuttle crew that took it to space visited CERN to mark the occasion