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  • Arts at CERN announces ‘Quàntica’ and a new collaboration with Barcelona

    Arts at CERN announces ‘Quàntica’ and a new collaboration with Barcelona

    Arts at CERN announces two key ventures: ‘Quàntica’, an exhibition project at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and a partnership that begins this year with the city of Barcelona as co-host for the Collide International residency award.

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  • Serbia joins CERN as its 23rd Member State

    Serbia joins CERN as its 23rd Member State

    Today, CERN welcomes Serbia as its 23rd Member State, following receipt of formal notification from UNESCO that Serbia has acceded to the CERN Convention

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  • LHCb sees a new flavour of matter–antimatter asymmetry

    LHCb sees a new flavour of matter–antimatter asymmetry

    The LHCb collaboration has observed a phenomenon known as CP violation in the decays of a particle known as a D0 meson for the first time

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  • FASER: CERN approves new experiment to look for long-lived, exotic particles

    FASER: CERN approves new experiment to look for long-lived, exotic particles

    The experiment, which will complement existing searches for dark matter at the LHC, will be operational in 2021

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  • Download the Big Bang on your smartphone

    Download the Big Bang on your smartphone

    Travel through the history of space, time and matter within minutes

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  • Web@30: The 30-year anniversary of an invention that changed the world

    Web@30: The 30-year anniversary of an invention that changed the world

    Geneva, 4 March 2019. Thirty years ago, a young computer expert working at CERN combined ideas about accessing information with a desire for broad connectivity and openness. His proposal became the World Wide Web. CERN is celebrating the 30th anniversary of this revolutionary invention with a special day on 12 March. In March 1989, while

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  • Croatia to become an Associate Member of CERN

    Croatia to become an Associate Member of CERN

    Today, the Director-General of CERN, Fabiola Gianotti, and the Minister of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia, Blaženka Divjak, signed an Agreement admitting Croatia as an Associate Member of CERN.

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  • What’s in store for the CMS detector over the next two years?

    What’s in store for the CMS detector over the next two years?

    With the LHC switched off for a two-year technical stop, CMS is undergoing significant maintenance and upgrades

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  • Wheels in motion: what’s planned for ATLAS in the next two years?

    Wheels in motion: what’s planned for ATLAS in the next two years?

    Enhancing ATLAS’s detection capabilities in preparation for the LHC restart

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  • Upgrading ALICE: What’s in store for the next two years?

    Upgrading ALICE: What’s in store for the next two years?

    Major internal improvements await the ALICE detector during CERN’s Long Shutdown 2 (LS2)

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