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Taking the measure of the kilogram

Forget the new diet - you may weigh less in the morning anyway, thanks to an overhaul of the kilogram

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Engineering
07 April, 2012
Engineering
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07 April, 2012

ISOLDE to produce isotopes for medical research

The CERN-MEDICIS project will use waste beams from ISOLDE to produce isotopes that could help in the war on cancer

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Experiments
06 April, 2012

LHC physics underway at record collision energy of 8TeV

At 12.38pm CEST this morning, the LHC shift crew declared "stable beams"

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Accelerators
05 April, 2012

COMPASS to point in new directions

Two new phases of the COMPASS experiment will bring a powerful new look at quarks and gluons

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Experiments
03 April, 2012
Experiments
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03 April, 2012

Accelerating Science in Turkey

CERN’s travelling exhibition will be showing at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, for 4 months

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At CERN
02 April, 2012
At CERN
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02 April, 2012

LHCb experiment squeezes the space for expected new physics

Results presented at the Moriond conference by LHCb put stringent limits on the current theory of particle physics, the Standard Model

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Experiments
05 March, 2012

Vacuum team race against time to fix LHC component

On 17 January the Vacuums, Surfaces and Coatings (VSC) Group had exactly one hour to extract and fix a faulty 2-metre section of the LHC's vacuum

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Engineering
05 March, 2012

The non-LHC experiments in 2012

There's more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. Check out what the non-LHC experiments will be getting up to this year

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Experiments
21 February, 2012
Experiments
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21 February, 2012

Last chance to register for Swiss FameLab semi-finals

Regional semifinals for this international science-communication competition for young researchers will take place on 4 Feburary

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At CERN
14 February, 2012

LHC to run at 4 TeV per beam in 2012

CERN's director of accelerators and technology explains the reasoning behind running at 0.5 Tev higher than in 2011

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Accelerators
13 February, 2012
Accelerators
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13 February, 2012