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Awakening acceleration: AWAKE’s plasma cell arrives

With plasma cell in place, CERN’s AWAKE experiment is one step closer to testing acceleration hundreds of times more powerful than current methods

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Experiments
17 February, 2016
Experiments
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17 February, 2016

The ICTR-PHE medical conference kicks off

Experts in medicine, physics, biology and IT come together with the aim of advancing medical techniques

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Knowledge sharing
15 February, 2016
Knowledge sharing
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15 February, 2016

CERN congratulates the discoverers of gravitational waves

Congratulations to LIGO and Virgo for the first ever direct detection of gravitational waves

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Physics
11 February, 2016

TEDxCERN gets the TED spotlight

The TED website now hosts even more TEDxCERN talks, reaching viewers of more than 1 million per video

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At CERN
10 February, 2016
At CERN
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10 February, 2016

Has the magic gone from Calcium-52?

CERN Researchers at ISOLDE facility show the supposedly doubly-magic nucleus Calcium-52 has an unexpectedly large charge radius

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Experiments
09 February, 2016
Experiments
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09 February, 2016

Last main ring components leave CERN for SESAME

Less than three years after the EC and CERN announced the start of the CESSAMag project, the final components left CERN bound for Jordan today

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Engineering
01 February, 2016
Engineering
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01 February, 2016

Official visits to CERN from Lithuania and Pakistan

The Laboratory welcomes the President of Lithuania and the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

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At CERN
27 January, 2016

Microcosm: the story of CERN

After a major revamp in 2015, CERN’s Microcosm exhibition is once again open to visitors

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At CERN
22 January, 2016
At CERN
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22 January, 2016

ALPHA experiment shows antihydrogen charge is neutral

ALPHA shows the most accurate measurement yet of the electric charge of antihydrogen atoms in a new Nature paper

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Physics
21 January, 2016

Winter therapy for the accelerators

Hundreds of people were hard at work during the year-end technical stop as all the accelerators underwent maintenance and upgrade operations

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Accelerators
14 January, 2016
Accelerators
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14 January, 2016