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Breaking data records bit by bit

In October 2017 the CERN data centre broke its own record for data storage when it collected 12.3 petabytes of data over a single month

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Computing
14 December, 2017
Computing
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14 December, 2017

Explore CERN in the world of Minecraft

UK school groups have recreated the ATLAS detector in the gaming platform Minecraft

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Experiments
13 December, 2017
Experiments
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13 December, 2017

Energy: making research infrastructures part of the solution

The fourth Energy for Sustainable Science Workshop took place in the end of November at the Extreme Light Infrastructure’s Magurele-Bucharest campus

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At CERN
12 December, 2017

LHC Report: An eventful and successful 2017

Now that the successful 2017 run has ended, let’s take a look back at a year full of events

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Accelerators
12 December, 2017
Accelerators
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12 December, 2017

A 350-metre-tall tower to purify argon

CERN is participating in ARIA, a project to build a 350-metre column to produce extra-pure argon to be used in a dark-matter search experiment

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Engineering
12 December, 2017
Engineering
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12 December, 2017

Opinion: So you want to communicate science?

Sijbrand de Jong explains why even the busiest physicists can find time to help inspire and educate the next generation

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At CERN
11 December, 2017
At CERN
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11 December, 2017

Show don’t tell - LHCreate asks why

Participants in the annual LHCreate workshop presented their most recent exciting ideas during a two-day event at IdeaSquare

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Knowledge sharing
11 December, 2017
Knowledge sharing
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11 December, 2017

CERN hosts major international fire and rescue meeting

Some 20 leading firefighters from 13 countries came to CERN from 15 to 19 November for a meeting of experts on fires involving hazardous materials

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At CERN
10 December, 2017

Why you got a new PDF reader

Software of high quality that is well programmed, with best-practice security principles in mind, is harder to exploit

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Computing
10 December, 2017
Computing
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10 December, 2017

Crab cavities: colliding protons head-on

The crab cavities, a new technology to brighten up the future, will play an important role in the High-Luminosity LHC

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Accelerators
08 December, 2017
Accelerators
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08 December, 2017