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World Wide Web born at CERN 25 years ago

In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal to develop a radical new way of linking and sharing information: the World Wide Web

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Computing
12 March, 2014
Computing
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12 March, 2014

François Englert talks Higgs bosons and supersymmetry

On his first trip to CERN since sharing the Nobel prize in physics last year with Peter Higgs, François Englert talks Higgs bosons and supersymmetry

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Physics
10 March, 2014

CERN voices, for International Women's Day

On the occasion of International Women's Day (8 March), voices from the CERN community share their views on diversity and collaboration

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At CERN
07 March, 2014

Tool developed at CERN makes software citation easier

Source code from the popular software-development site GitHub can now be preserved and cited through the CERN-hosted online repository Zenodo

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Computing
05 March, 2014

Microelectronics at CERN: from infancy to maturity

The start of the LAA project in 1986 propelled electronics at CERN into the era of microelectronics

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Accelerators
04 March, 2014

A Nobel laureate's formula for the universe

Watch François Englert explain the equations for the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism that gives particles mass, with the help of a blackboard

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Physics
26 February, 2014

Test Storage Ring could find new life at ISOLDE

A particle accelerator from Heidelberg, Germany – the Test Storage Ring - may not be going into storage after all

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Accelerators
25 February, 2014
Accelerators
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25 February, 2014

CERN History: Giant magnets come to CERN in the 1950s

In CERN's 60th year, we look back at some of its historic moments. Here magnet coils for the Synchrocyclotron make their journey to Geneva in 1955

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At CERN
24 February, 2014

Taking biomedical research at CERN to the next level

The head of CERN's Medical Application Programme addresses a medical conference 60 years after the first use of protons to treat cancer

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Knowledge sharing
20 February, 2014
Knowledge sharing
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20 February, 2014

CERN takes 60th anniversary celebrations to member states

To celebrate the Organization's 60th anniversary, a variety of events are planned in members states – learn more on the cern60 website

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At CERN
14 February, 2014