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  • Latvia to join CERN as an Associate Member State

    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

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  • Arts at CERN and Pro Helvetia extend their partnership with the launch of “Connect”

    Arts at CERN and Pro Helvetia extend their partnership with the launch of “Connect”

    This new programme will promote dialogue between the arts, science and technology for the next four years

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  • One year on

    On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. A few days later, CERN went into safe mode. Today, the Laboratory is still far from being the hive of activity and human interaction that we all crave, with a large fraction of the personnel still working from home. As a consequence of

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  • Herbert Lengeler (1931 – 2021)

    Herbert Lengeler (1931 – 2021)

    Herbert Lengeler(1931 – 2021) — It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Herbert Lengeler, an experimental physicist who made great contributions to the development of superconducting radiofrequency (SC RF) cavities. Herbert passed away peacefully on 26 January 2021, in his home, only three weeks short of his 90th birthday.

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  • Arnulfo Zepeda Domínguez (1943 – 2020)

    Arnulfo Zepeda Domínguez (1943 – 2020)

    Arnulfo Zepeda Domínguez(1943 – 2020) — Born in 1943 in San Luis de Potosí, Mexico, Arnulfo Zepeda graduated in nuclear engineering from the University of Prague in 1967. He then joined Cinvestav (the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional), where he obtained a PhD in physics in 1970, and

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  • ALPHA cools antimatter using laser light for the first time

    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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  • Excellence in science thrives on global interaction

    A year ago, it seemed that the world closed around us. From one day to the next, travel and movement became restricted. The usual in-person exchanges with colleagues from across the world suddenly became a rare occurrence. Yet, while the pandemic may have changed how we interact, it has also highlighted the inherently global nature

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  • Intriguing new result from the LHCb experiment at CERN

    Intriguing new result from the LHCb experiment at CERN

    The LHCb results strengthen hints of a violation of lepton flavour universality

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  • Gerd-Jürgen Beyer (1940 – 2021)

    Gerd-Jürgen Beyer (1940 – 2021)

    Gerd-Jürgen Beyer(1940 – 2021) — Gerd Beyer, who passed away on 20 January at the age of 81, left his mark by developing the biomedical field of research, both at ISOLDE (CERN) forty years ago and at many other laboratories. He will be remembered as a tireless worker in the field of nuclear and applied

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  • CERN launches Technology Impact Fund to address global challenges

    CERN launches Technology Impact Fund to address global challenges

    First selected project could save lives by providing earlier earthquake alerts

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