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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
CERN data storage gets ready for Run 3
Extensive consolidation of the data storage infrastructure culminated in 2020 when the new CERN Tape Archive software (CTA) entered production
25 years ago: the strategic move to PCs in high-energy physics
In September 1995, a paper entitled “The PC as Physics Computer for LHC?” paved the way to a new era in high-energy physics computing
NA63 makes crystal-clear study of radiation reaction
The NA63 collaboration has made a high-precision study of the phenomenon of radiation reaction, using particle beams and crystals