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LS2 Report: An upgraded Inner Tracking System joins the ALICE detector

The two barrels of the largest pixel detector ever built have been successfully lowered into the cavern and stand ready for commissioning

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Experiments
26 May, 2021

CERN opportunities for STEM* students with disabilities

Accessibility and reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities is a key facet of the CERN Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) policy

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At CERN
25 May, 2021

RADES joins the hunt for dark matter

One of the latest additions to the CAST experiment has set a new limit on the strength of the interaction between photons and hypothetical dark-matter particles called axions

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Physics
25 May, 2021
Physics
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25 May, 2021

Change at the helm of the CERN & Society Foundation

Pascale Goy replaces Matteo Castoldi as head of the CERN & Society Foundation

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At CERN
20 May, 2021

Why the LHC magnets are blue – and other colourful accelerator questions answered

Are all LHC magnets blue? Who decides the colour of a magnet and on what basis? What does the small purple one do? See our answers below

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Accelerators
19 May, 2021

AMS, a decade of cosmic discoveries

19 May 2021 marks 10 years since the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer was installed on the International Space Station and started sending data back to Earth

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Experiments
19 May, 2021
Experiments
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19 May, 2021

The tenth edition of “Be a scientist” is over

780 budding scientists from schools in the local French and Geneva area set out to identify the content of mysterious boxes

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At CERN
18 May, 2021

Recognise the signs of a mental health problem

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental disorders affect one in four people in the world

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At CERN
13 May, 2021

Computer Security: What do accelerators and pipelines have in common?

Ransomware attacks against enterprises and academia are not a new phenomenon...

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Computing
13 May, 2021

Why precision luminosity measurements matter

Both the CMS and ATLAS experiments have performed luminosity measurements with spectacular precision

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Physics
12 May, 2021