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  • ALICE pins down hypermatter properties

    ALICE pins down hypermatter properties

    The collaboration’s latest study of a “strange”, unstable nucleus known as the hypertriton offers new insight into the particle interactions that may take place at the hearts of neutron stars

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  • CERN and Solvay launch STEM education programme for high school students

    CERN and Solvay launch STEM education programme for high school students

    The three-year programme combines online learning and a residential camp at CERN, aimed at fostering interest in STEM across the world

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  • CERN condolences on the death of Queen Elizabeth II

    CERN condolences on the death of Queen Elizabeth II

    The CERN flag is flying at half-mast on the Esplanade des Particules today, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II yesterday, at the age of 96. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is one of CERN’s 12 founding Member States. Queen Elizabeth II became its Head of State in February 1952, three

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  • Spectroscopic X-ray imaging now certified for medical use

    Spectroscopic X-ray imaging now certified for medical use

    The CERN Workshops on Medical Applications of Spectroscopic X-ray Detectors have been instrumental in advancing spectroscopic X-ray imaging and bringing it from the lab to the clinic

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  • Sparks! announces its second edition of the Serendipity Forum

    Sparks! announces its second edition of the Serendipity Forum

    The second edition of Sparks! will be hosted at CERN on 17 and 18 November with the theme “Future Technology for Health”

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  • Call for crowdsourcing projects pursuing the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    Call for crowdsourcing projects pursuing the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    Crowd4SDG launches its final call for projects to tackle climate change and promote justice

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  • ATTRACT unveils the projects that will benefit from its €28 million fund for innovation

    ATTRACT unveils the projects that will benefit from its €28 million fund for innovation

    ATTRACT, a research and innovation project funded by the European Union and backed by a consortium of nine partners, including CERN, will commit €28 million to finance 36 projects from more than 20 countries

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  • CERN welcomes INFN and IIT as new members of its IBM Quantum Network hub

    CERN welcomes INFN and IIT as new members of its IBM Quantum Network hub

    Two European research institutes have recently signed an agreement to become the latest members of CERN’s hub in the IBM Quantum Network.

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  • CERN tech in space: the first CERN-driven satellite has been successfully launched

    With the launch of the CELESTA satellite for radiation monitoring in space, CERN shows its expertise in the field of radiation effects on electronics

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  • ATLAS measures joint polarisation of carriers of the weak force

    Joint-polarisation measurements of the W and Z bosons provide new opportunities to look for physics beyond the Standard Model

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