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Theorists refute claim against DAMA/LIBRA
The medical and physics communities came together at ICTR-PHE 2012 to trade techniques and technologies for the fight against cancer
Some of the most recent analyses of the Higgs searches were presented yesterday at the Moriond QCD conference
Results presented at the Moriond conference by LHCb put stringent limits on the current theory of particle physics, the Standard Model
On 17 January the Vacuums, Surfaces and Coatings (VSC) Group had exactly one hour to extract and fix a faulty 2-metre section of the LHC's vacuum
The 100 bi-fuel vehicles on the CERN site are underused - why not hit the gas to decrease your carbon emissions?
There's more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. Check out what the non-LHC experiments will be getting up to this year
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The skylight at the top of the Globe of Science and Innovation has recently been fitted with adjustable "smart" glass
The cool-down and circuit testing in all LHC sectors restarted 3 weeks ago, and is going well
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