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ALICE honours its thesis award winners
Fabrizio Grosa and Arild Velure are the young laureates of the 2020 award
CMS sees evidence of top quarks in collisions between heavy nuclei
The result opens the path to study in a new and unique way the extreme state of matter that is thought to have existed shortly after the Big Bang
LHCb sees new form of matter–antimatter asymmetry in strange beauty particles
The LHCb collaboration has observed time-dependent matter–antimatter asymmetry in the decays of strange beauty particles into charged kaons
Science Gateway construction gets the green light
Construction of CERN’s Science Gateway is to start later this year, following receipt of official permission from the Geneva authorities. This unique facility is due to open to the public at the end of 2022
Computer Security: From the digital trenches
During a recent audit of CERN’s computer security, the question was raised of how many attacks CERN is subjected to each day...
CERN meets quantum technology
The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative will explore the potential of devices harnessing perplexing quantum phenomena such as entanglement to enrich and expand its challenging research programme
Keeping the ATLAS Inner Detector in perfect alignment
The ATLAS Inner Detector can measure the position of charged particles that pass through it to better than a 100th of a millimetre! To reach that precision, the detector must be aligned to equal or better accuracy
Highlights from the ATTRACT deep-tech conference
From medical imaging to a robotic fish, the ATTRACT conference explored a wealth of breakthrough technologies
LS2 Report: 144 new muon detectors in CMS
CMS now has a new layer of detectors: 144 gas electron multiplier (GEM) chambers have been installed to detect the muons produced in the very forward region of CMS
Flashes of electrons against cancer
Meet Steinar Stapnes, Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) project leader, in the first of our Knowledge Transfer spotlight series