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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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  • Making a difference with science

    Making a difference with science

    To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, female scientists at CERN share their stories

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  • International collaboration publishes concept design for a post-LHC future circular collider at CERN

    The Future Circular Collider (FCC) collaboration submits its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for publication

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  • The usefulness of useless knowledge

    The usefulness of useless knowledge

    Fundamental science will help solve the world’s problems

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