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CERN openlab held its annual technical workshop on 9-11 March. Due to the pandemic, the 200 participants joined the workshop this year via Zoom
The LHCb results strengthen hints of a violation of lepton flavour universality
On 28 January, CERN teamed up with fellow EIROforum organisations ESA and ESO to deliver an eye-opening online event to mark Data Protection Day
First selected project could save lives by providing earlier earthquake alerts
The TOTEM collaboration at the LHC and the DØ collaboration at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab have discovered an elusive state of three gluons
About 70% of the emails received by CERN are of the malicious kind
The 2020 ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Awards and Thesis Awards were presented on 11 February
The Crowd4SDG consortium promotes citizen science aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on climate action
The ATLAS collaboration welcomes new management this month, with Andreas Hoecker (CERN) taking the lead as Spokesperson for the experiment
The next-generation successor of the COMPASS experiment will measure fundamental properties of the proton and its relatives
The Proton Synchrotron accelerated its first beam on 4 March after a comprehensive two-year overhaul
Over the past 10 years, the LHC has found more than 50 new particles called hadrons
