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New Knowledge Transfer website to grow CERN’s industry links
A new Knowledge Transfer network website and newsletter encourages businesses and researchers to share tech, expertise and interests
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ICARUS neutrino experiment to move to Fermilab
The world’s largest liquid-argon neutrino detector will find a new home across the Atlantic Ocean at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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3D-printing company joins CERN innovation centre
A company that uses a 3D-printing technique to craft metal filters is the first to join the STFC CERN Business Incubation Centre in the UK
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CERN and Ars Electronica launch open call for the third Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN
Geneva/Linz, 3 June 2013. CERN1 and Ars Electronica2 today launch an open call for artists working in the digital domain to apply for the third Prix Ars Electronica Collide @ CERN3. The winner will receive a fully funded residency at CERN and Ars Electronica to create new dimensions in their artistic practice by encounters with
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First observations of short-lived pear-shaped atomic nuclei
Geneva, 8 May 2013. An international team at the ISOLDE radioactive-beam facility at CERN1 has shown that some atomic nuclei can assume asymmetric, “pear” shapes. The observations contradict some existing nuclear theories and will require others to be amended. The results are published in the journal Nature on 8 May 2013. Most nuclei have the
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Carrying the weak force: Thirty years of the W boson
On 25 January 1983, CERN physicists announced to the world the discovery of the W boson, an elementary particle that carries the weak force