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Change at the helm of the CERN & Society Foundation

Pascale Goy replaces Matteo Castoldi as head of the CERN & Society Foundation

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At CERN
20 May, 2021

Why the LHC magnets are blue – and other colourful accelerator questions answered

Are all LHC magnets blue? Who decides the colour of a magnet and on what basis? What does the small purple one do? See our answers below

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Accelerators
19 May, 2021

The tenth edition of “Be a scientist” is over

780 budding scientists from schools in the local French and Geneva area set out to identify the content of mysterious boxes

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At CERN
18 May, 2021

Computer Security: What do accelerators and pipelines have in common?

Ransomware attacks against enterprises and academia are not a new phenomenon...

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Computing
13 May, 2021

Physicists launch initiative to help India during its catastrophic COVID-19 surge

Some members of the HEP community have organised a fundraising initiative to purchase ventilators, oxygen concentrators, PPE and other medical supplies that are running critically low in India

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At CERN
05 May, 2021

LS2 Report: Installation of the CMS beam pipe

The CMS collaboration just reached another LS2 milestone: the biggest upgrade of the experimental beam vacuum system since the first operation of CMS in 2008

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Experiments
11 May, 2021

Connecting the smallest and largest scales

The first edition of the EuCAPT annual symposium on 5-7 May saw hundreds of physicists discuss the latest opportunities and challenges in theoretical astroparticle physics and cosmology

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Physics
10 May, 2021

Supporting talented students with the ATLAS PhD Grant

On 13 April 2021, the recipients of this year's ATLAS PhD Grant were celebrated in an online ceremony

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Experiments
30 April, 2021

A SciFi moment for the LHCb experiment

The first pieces of LHCb’s new scintillating-fibre particle-tracking detector, or SciFi, have just journeyed 100 metres down to be installed in the experiment’s underground cavern

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Experiments
06 May, 2021
Experiments
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06 May, 2021

“La nuit est belle!”: a light-free night for the Greater Geneva area

On 21 May, turn off your lights and enjoy nature

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At CERN
29 April, 2021

Computer Security: About risks and threats

The cyber-risks can be split into four categories: operational, financial, legal and reputational

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Computing
29 April, 2021
Computing
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29 April, 2021

What is mental health?

According to the World Health Organization (WHO): "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

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At CERN
29 April, 2021
At CERN
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29 April, 2021