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World’s first proton treatment of a cardiac pathology

A cancer therapy synchrotron that CERN helped to establish has treated a patient with ventricular arrhythmia for the first time

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Knowledge sharing
14 February, 2020
Knowledge sharing
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14 February, 2020

ATLAS releases 13-TeV open data for science education

The collaboration has made public the data of 1 quadrillion proton-proton collisions from the LHC’s last run

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Knowledge sharing
13 February, 2020
Knowledge sharing
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13 February, 2020

Computer Security: Malicious Robots

“Stop – Think – Don’t Click” is one of the standard pieces of advice when you are asked to click on links to unsolicited, unknown or dubious webpages

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Computing
13 February, 2020
Computing
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13 February, 2020

LS2 Report: PS prepared for higher injection energies

CERN’s oldest working accelerator has a new injection kicker magnet and will soon receive a new septum as well

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Accelerators
11 February, 2020
Accelerators
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11 February, 2020

ISOLDE spots another pear-shaped nucleus

An experiment performed at CERN’s ISOLDE facility shows that the nucleus of the isotope radium-222 is pear-shaped

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Physics
10 February, 2020
Physics
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10 February, 2020

Female ambassadors for science visit local schools

Female researchers and engineers have presented their careers and jobs to 132 classes in Geneva and neighbouring France

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Knowledge sharing
10 February, 2020
Knowledge sharing
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10 February, 2020

Using LEGO to study the building blocks of the universe

An improvised device, assembled using toy bricks, helped scientists conduct tests at CERN’s NA61/SHINE

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Experiments
07 February, 2020
Experiments
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07 February, 2020

A new life for AMS

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano has left the International Space Station after a six-month stay during which he contributed to repairing the AMS experiment

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Experiments
06 February, 2020
Experiments
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06 February, 2020

Computer Security: Tunnel Madness

The "Allo Unblocker", "Allo Better Internet" and "Allo VPN" plug-ins have been explicitly banned from being used at CERN

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Computing
30 January, 2020
Computing
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30 January, 2020

Final stretch for diode insulation in the LHC

The DISMAC project’s teams have insulated the 1232nd – and last – diode of the LHC

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Accelerators
29 January, 2020
Accelerators
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29 January, 2020