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CERN detector could help to improve head tumour radiotherapy

Scientists are testing a new device to help target cancer cells more accurately in ion radiotherapy of head and neck tumours, which could help limit the treatment’s side effects. It includes Timepix3, a small particle detector developed at CERN

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Knowledge sharing
06 March, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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06 March, 2024

The Open Quantum Institute launches its pilot phase at CERN

The three-year pilot will build on the efforts to date to help unleash the full power of quantum computing for the benefit of all

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Computing
05 March, 2024

LHCb observes a new decay mode of the charmed beauty meson

The result has implications for future searches for rare beauty meson decays and for the interpretation of results from the Fermilab g-2 experiment

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Physics
04 March, 2024

We love your CERN poems

CERN community, thank you for your beautiful odes to technology, it wasn’t easy to pick our favourite…

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At CERN
29 February, 2024
At CERN
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29 February, 2024

Accelerator Report: Advancing smoothly through recommissioning and overcoming challenges

The injection of the first protons into the LHC is scheduled for 11 March, but could be brought forward by a few days if all goes well

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Accelerators
29 February, 2024
Accelerators
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29 February, 2024

Indico: 20 years of event managing

The CERN-developed open source software, Indico, is being chosen by a growing number of users worldwide. As it celebrates 20 years, find out what new features are planned for 2024

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Computing
28 February, 2024
Computing
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28 February, 2024

ABB and CERN identify 17.4% energy-saving opportunity in the Laboratory’s cooling and ventilation motors

Through a strategic research partnership focused on CERN’s cooling and ventilation systems, energy efficiency audits have helped to identify a savings potential of 17.4% across a total of 800 motors

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Knowledge sharing
28 February, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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28 February, 2024

Computer Security: The hardship of three security paradigms

These paradigms “KISS ─ keep it simple, stupid” and “defence-in-depth” go hand in hand once we all jointly pick the right two of “cheap, convenient, secure”

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Computing
26 February, 2024

ATLAS congratulates its 2023 Thesis Awards winners

The ATLAS collaboration celebrated the achievements of its exceptional PhD students at its recent Thesis Awards ceremony. Discover the names of the seven award winners

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Experiments
26 February, 2024
Experiments
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26 February, 2024

A new data centre at CERN

The new data centre complements the existing centre and will allow CERN to respond to the growing data-processing needs of the worldwide scientific community

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Computing
23 February, 2024
Computing
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23 February, 2024