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A CERN-Fermilab team has developed a new magnet that will be a valuable asset to the HL-LHC, the next step of for LHC machine
The African School of Physics was held in Ghana this summer, where lecturers from CERN shared their expertise with 50 motivated students
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has delivered over twice as many collisions to the ATLAS and CMS experiments this year as it did in the whole of 2011
Heavy-ion experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will present their latest results at the Quark Matter 2012 conference
Today marks 100 years since Victor Hess made last of series of balloon flights leading to the discovery of cosmic rays
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