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Six of ATLAS’s most junior members were celebrated in CERN’s main auditorium
Version 2.0 of the CERN Open Hardware Licence has been released, introducing three variants meant to cater to different collaborative models
Machine-learning technology is being used by the CMS collaboration to track odd events among LHC data
A travelling art exhibition entitled ‘Quantum/Broken Symmetries’* will bring the fruit of CERN’s art and science residencies to four new museums worldwide in 2020.
“Stop – Think – Don’t Click” is one of the standard pieces of advice when you are asked to click on links to unsolicited, unknown or dubious webpages
A new collaboration agreement sees CERN data analytics used to help protect commodity and financial markets from fraud
Two new beam dumps are ready to be installed in the Proton Synchrotron
The collaboration has made public the data of 1 quadrillion proton-proton collisions from the LHC’s last run
The measurements are consistent with predictions for “normal” matter and pave the way for future precision studies
A cancer therapy synchrotron that CERN helped to establish has treated a patient with ventricular arrhythmia for the first time
The MoEDAL collaboration at CERN reports the first search at a particle accelerator for particles with both electric and magnetic charge
An improvised device, assembled using toy bricks, helped scientists conduct tests at CERN’s NA61/SHINE