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CERN teams up with Luxembourg and the World Food Programme to tackle global hunger
The new partnership aims to leverage state-of-the-art AI technology to speed up progress towards a world with zero hunger
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Particle physicists chart a course to the future
The aim of the third update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics is to develop a visionary and concrete plan that greatly advances human knowledge in fundamental physics through the realisation of the next flagship project at CERN
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A test stand for the High-Luminosity LHC
The major upgrade of the LHC will be tested in an above-ground facility that has recently had its first superconducting system installed
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New schedule for CERN’s accelerators
The LHC’s third run has been extended until July 2026. The long technical stop that will follow will be extended by four months, postponing the start-up of the High-Luminosity LHC until June 2030
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Blowing out 70 candles: CERN celebrates seven decades of discoveries and looks ahead to a brilliant future of science and innovation
A special high-level ceremony held at CERN crowned a year-long celebration taking place across Europe and beyond
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Professor Costas Fountas elected as next President of the CERN Council
The CERN Council has announced that Professor Costas Fountas will become its 25th President beginning on 1 January 2025
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Robert Aymar (1936 – 2024)
CERN Director-General from 2004 to 2008, he mobilised the teams to finish building the LHC and commission the machine
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ALICE probes the strong interaction three-body problem
With new measurements of hadron–deuteron correlations, the ALICE collaboration explores the strong interaction of three-body systems at the LHC.
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NA62 experiment at CERN observes ultra-rare particle decay
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the odds of this decay occurring are less than one in 10 billion
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LHC experiments at CERN observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet
The results open up a new perspective on the complex world of quantum physics