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ISOLDE spots another pear-shaped nucleus

An experiment performed at CERN’s ISOLDE facility shows that the nucleus of the isotope radium-222 is pear-shaped

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Physics
10 February, 2020
Physics
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10 February, 2020

Female ambassadors for science visit local schools

Female researchers and engineers have presented their careers and jobs to 132 classes in Geneva and neighbouring France

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Knowledge sharing
10 February, 2020
Knowledge sharing
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10 February, 2020

Using LEGO to study the building blocks of the universe

An improvised device, assembled using toy bricks, helped scientists conduct tests at CERN’s NA61/SHINE

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Experiments
07 February, 2020
Experiments
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07 February, 2020

A new life for AMS

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano has left the International Space Station after a six-month stay during which he contributed to repairing the AMS experiment

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Experiments
06 February, 2020
Experiments
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06 February, 2020

Computer Security: Tunnel Madness

The "Allo Unblocker", "Allo Better Internet" and "Allo VPN" plug-ins have been explicitly banned from being used at CERN

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Computing
30 January, 2020
Computing
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30 January, 2020

Final stretch for diode insulation in the LHC

The DISMAC project’s teams have insulated the 1232nd – and last – diode of the LHC

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Accelerators
29 January, 2020
Accelerators
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29 January, 2020

CERN ends trial of Facebook Workplace

Workplace account feature changes mean an end to CERN’s trial of the platform

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Computing
28 January, 2020
Computing
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28 January, 2020

Particle physicists formulate future of the field

This week’s drafting session marks key discussions for the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

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Knowledge sharing
20 January, 2020
Knowledge sharing
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20 January, 2020

LHCb explores the beauty of lepton universality

For the first time, LHCb uses beauty baryons to test this key principle of the Standard Model

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Physics
16 January, 2020

Computer Security: A second factor to the rescue

The IT department is deploying the use of so-called “two-factor authentication”

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Computing
16 January, 2020