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  • TEDxCERN: A remarkable elephant in the room

    TEDxCERN 2018 hosted speakers from the digital world and life science experts who gave talks that inspired a worldwide audience

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  • Art residencies for Swiss artists at research centres

    Art residencies for Swiss artists at research centres

    Arts at CERN announces two residencies for Swiss artists: Collide Pro Helvetia and Simetría

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  • Exhibition showcasing results of three years of arts and science collaborations

    Exhibition showcasing results of three years of arts and science collaborations

    What happens when scientists and artists collide? Artworks resulting from three years of collaboration between physicists and Collide International artists-in-residence at CERN, will be exhibited at Broken Symmetries in FACT Liverpool.

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  • The European particle physics community gears up for a new shared vision for the future

    The European particle physics community gears up for a new shared vision for the future

    During its hundred-and-ninetieth session, the CERN Council formally launched the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, a two-year process involving the whole community and aiming at developing a common vision for the future of physics.

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  • Rugby or football? ISOLDE reveals shape-shifting character of Mercury isotopes

    Rugby or football? ISOLDE reveals shape-shifting character of Mercury isotopes

    An unprecedented combination of experimental nuclear physics and theoretical and computational modelling techniques has been brought together to reveal the full extent of the odd-even shape staggering of exotic mercury isotopes, and explain how it happens

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  • First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment

    First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment

    The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the story of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).

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  • Hunting for dark quarks

    Hunting for dark quarks

    A search for dark quarks conducted by the CMS collaboration inches closer to the parent particles from which they may originate

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  • Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed

    Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed

    Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks.

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  • Opinion: We need to talk about the Higgs

    It is six years ago that the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced, to great fanfare in the world’s media, as a crowning success of CERN’s LHC

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  • ISOLDE peers into the world of DNA

    ISOLDE peers into the world of DNA

    Researchers at CERN’s ISOLDE facility have used an ultrasensitive variant of NMR spectroscopy to study DNA interactions

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