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Tweetup to coincide with the visit of Nasa astronauts to the AMS experiment at CERN

The space-shuttle crew laid a European Physical Society plaque at high-altitude research centre <em>Les Cosmiques</em> near <em>Mont Blanc</em>

Twelve talented students aged 15-18 got to spend a week at CERN as part of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair prize

The space shuttle carried the Alpha Magentic Spectrometer to the ISS last year &ndash; on Wednesday its crew will visit the AMS control centre

Discussions under way for possible re-use of LEIR accelerator

Katie Kemp, an 18-year-old from Seattle, visited CERN with help from a charitable foundation

A mixed bag of operations and the development of special optics mean the LHC is on track for as much luminosity as possible before the long shutdown

LHC will run for a further seven weeks in a bid to maximize data for physics following the latest Higgs-search update

As part of her prize package, last year's winner Shree Bose won a trip to CERN, which coincided with announcement of a new, Higgs-like particle

Last year's winner Shree Bose won a trip to CERN, which coincided with the announcement of the discovery of a new, Higgs-like particle

At a recent brainstorming meeting at CERN, over 200 scientists discussed the possibility of modifying LEIR to serve the biomedical community