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Brazil to become an Associate Member State of CERN

On 3 March 2022, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Brazilian Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Marcos Pontes signed an agreement admitting Brazil as an Associate Member State of CERN

Press release
At CERN
12 April, 2022
At CERN
Press release
12 April, 2022

CERN unveils quantum research programme

CERN QTI reaches its next milestone today, with the unveiling of a first roadmap defining its medium- and long-term quantum research programme

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Knowledge sharing
14 October, 2021
Knowledge sharing
Press release
14 October, 2021

Professor Eliezer Rabinovici elected as next President of the CERN Council

The CERN Council today announced the election of Professor Eliezer Rabinovici as its 24th president, for a period of one year

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At CERN
24 September, 2021
At CERN
Press release
24 September, 2021

Two high-school teams from Italy and Mexico win the CERN Beamline for Schools competition

Two teams of high-school students from the Liceo Scientifico Statale “A. Scacchi” (Bari, Italy) and the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria “Plantel 2” (Mexico City, Mexico) have won the 2021 edition of the Beamline for Schools competition

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At CERN
23 June, 2021
At CERN
Press release
23 June, 2021

CERN lays first stone of Science Gateway

Today, CERN held a first stone ceremony for Science Gateway, the Laboratory’s new flagship project for science education and outreach

Press release
At CERN
21 June, 2021
At CERN
Press release
21 June, 2021

Latvia to join CERN as an Associate Member State

Representatives of CERN and of the Republic of Latvia signed an Agreement today admitting Latvia as a CERN Associate Member State

Press release
At CERN
14 April, 2021
At CERN
Press release
14 April, 2021

ALPHA cools antimatter using laser light for the first time

The result opens the door to considerably more precise studies of the internal structure of antihydrogen and of how it behaves under the influence of gravity

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Experiments
31 March, 2021
Experiments
Press release
31 March, 2021

CERN announces new open data policy in support of open science

A new open data policy for scientific experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will make scientific research more reproducible, accessible, and collaborative

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Knowledge sharing
11 December, 2020
Knowledge sharing
Press release
11 December, 2020

CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs boson process

The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN have announced new results which show that the Higgs boson decays into two muons

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Physics
03 August, 2020
Physics
Press release
03 August, 2020

Particle physicists update strategy for the future of the field in Europe

The CERN Council announced that it had unanimously updated the strategy intended to guide the future of particle physics in Europe within the global landscape

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Physics
19 June, 2020
Physics
Press release
19 June, 2020