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  • CERN tech to help investigate the dark universe

    CERN tech to help investigate the dark universe

    ESA’s recently launched Euclid telescope will rely on CERN software and computing infrastructure to help it map the effects of dark matter and dark energy on the Universe

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  • Three teams of secondary school pupils from the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams from CERN and DESY

    Three teams of secondary school pupils from the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams from CERN and DESY

    Geneva and Hamburg, 28 June 2023. In 2023, for the second time in the history of the Beamline for Schools competition, the evaluation committee selected three winning teams. The team “Myriad Magnets” from the Philips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, United States, and the team “Particular Perspective”, which brings together pupils from the Islamabad College for

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  • From physics to finance: how can CERN tools help to uncover market manipulation?

    From physics to finance: how can CERN tools help to uncover market manipulation?

    With its world-renowned expertise in the analysis of massive volumes of data, CERN has started a unique collaboration with leading market-surveillance experts to explore how particle physics could help to build future manipulation-detection techniques

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  • Joan Heemskerk wins CERN’s Collide Copenhagen residency award

    Joan Heemskerk wins CERN’s Collide Copenhagen residency award

    Joan Heemskerk, one of the pioneers of web-based art, has been selected as the winner of this year’s edition

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  • Connecting the small and the large scales

    Connecting the small and the large scales

    By collaborating with projects for future gravitational-wave observatories, CERN helps to find echoes from the past

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  • LHCb tightens precision on key measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry

    LHCb tightens precision on key measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry

    The LHCb collaboration’s new measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry in decays of beauty particles are the most precise yet of their kind

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  • Preparing for the next era of neutrino research

    Preparing for the next era of neutrino research

    The teams at CERN’s Neutrino Platform are currently upgrading and assembling multiple detectors to help large experiments in the USA and Japan to uncover these mysterious particles

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  • SHINE shines a light on neutrino beams

    SHINE shines a light on neutrino beams

    The NA61 experiment at CERN, also known as SHINE, has made new measurements that will help physicists work out the content of neutrino beams used in experiments in the US

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  • Live: Particle pursuit, a journey of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

    Live: Particle pursuit, a journey of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

    Join CERN, Fermilab and SURF on 15 June at 6 p.m. CEST for its first gameshow-style livestream to learn about all things neutrinos

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  • LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

    LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

    The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have joined forces to establish the first evidence of the rare decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a photon

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