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CERN surprises Swiss expo visitors
CERN was the guest of honour at the Automnales, Geneva’s huge annual fair: ten days of encounters and exchanges with the general public.
50 years since iconic 'A Model of Leptons' published
Steven Weinberg’s iconic paper, A Model of Leptons, was published in 1967 and determined the direction for high-energy particle physics research
Record luminosity: well done LHC
The LHC’s 2017 proton run has ended with record luminosity. The special runs will now take place before the winter shutdown.
Combatting cancer in challenging environments
CERN, the International Cancer Expert Corps (ICEC) and STFC are developing medical linear accelerators for low- and middle-income countries
Marie Skłodowska-Curie: more alive today than ever
We meet some of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows, on the 150th anniversary of the exceptional scientist’s birth
How much does a kilogram weigh?
During a seminar at CERN, Klaus von Klitzing, the 1985 Physics Nobel Laureate, explained how the definition of the kilogram will be revolutionised
From Earth to space: developing radiation-tolerant systems
CERN develops new technologies that have applications not only in particle physics experiments, but also in the aerospace industry
Happy Dark Matter Day
While 31 October may mean Halloween to some, to laboratories around the world it means Dark Matter Day
LHC reaches 2017 targets ahead of schedule
With 19 days still to go, the LHC has reached its 2017 production target, delivering more than 45 inverse femtobarns to the experiments
Xenon in the SPS: First tests for a photon factory
Partially ionised xenon atoms have been accelerated in the SPS to test a new gamma-ray source concept