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Big data and social media

American Internet pioneer Vint Cerf presented “Big data and social media” at CERN

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Computing
12 June, 2018
Computing
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12 June, 2018

Neutron stars cast light on quark matter

The first observation of a neutron-star merger by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has allowed researchers to improve the theory of quark matter

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Physics
07 June, 2018

Higgs boson comes out on top

New results from CMS and ATLAS experiments reveal how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark

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Physics
04 June, 2018
Physics
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04 June, 2018

FRESCA2: a record field for an extraordinary magnet

The FRESCA2 magnet, which will serve as a test station for the superconductors of the future, has set a new record of 14.6 teslas

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Engineering
01 June, 2018

World’s first crabbing of a proton beam

CERN successfully tests crab cavities, a key component of the High-Luminosity LHC

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Engineering
29 May, 2018
Engineering
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29 May, 2018

From CERN to the clinic

At a seminar at CERN today, Ron Heeren describes how CERN’s Timepix read-out chip might in the future be found in surgery rooms

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Knowledge sharing
29 May, 2018
Knowledge sharing
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29 May, 2018

Long live the doubly charmed particle

A year after the discovery of a new doubly charmed baryon, LHCb announces the measurement of its lifetime

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Physics
25 May, 2018
Physics
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25 May, 2018

Samuel Ting to present latest results from AMS

At a seminar at CERN today, Nobel Prize winner Samuel Ting will deliver the latest results from the AMS experiment

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Experiments
24 May, 2018

OPERA collaboration presents its final results on neutrino oscillations. All data publicly available on the CERN Open Data Portal

The OPERA collaboration reports the observation of a total of 10 candidate events for a muon to tau-neutrino conversion, in what are the very final results of the experiment.

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At CERN
22 May, 2018
At CERN
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22 May, 2018

A bumper crop of LHC results at Quark Matter 2018

The main LHC collaborations present a wealth of new results at this year’s Quark Matter conference

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Physics
18 May, 2018