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  • CERN inaugurates Science Gateway, its new outreach centre for science education

    CERN inaugurates Science Gateway, its new outreach centre for science education

    CERN has inaugurated its new emblematic centre for science education and outreach targeting a public of all ages. The building was designed by world-renowned architect Renzo Piano and funded by external donations.

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  • ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the influence of gravity on antimatter

    ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the influence of gravity on antimatter

    The result is a milestone in the study of the properties and behaviour of antimatter

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  • Three teams of secondary school pupils from the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams from CERN and DESY

    Three teams of secondary school pupils from the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams from CERN and DESY

    Geneva and Hamburg, 28 June 2023. In 2023, for the second time in the history of the Beamline for Schools competition, the evaluation committee selected three winning teams. The team “Myriad Magnets” from the Philips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, United States, and the team “Particular Perspective”, which brings together pupils from the Islamabad College for

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  • Improved ATLAS result weighs in on W boson

    Improved ATLAS result weighs in on W boson

    An improved ATLAS measurement of the W boson mass is in line with the Standard Model of particle physics

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  • The Higgs boson, ten years after its discovery

    The Higgs boson, ten years after its discovery

    The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider and the progress made since then, have allowed physicists to make tremendous steps forward in our understanding of the universe

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  • Three teams of high-school students from Egypt, Spain and France win the CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    Three teams of high-school students from Egypt, Spain and France win the CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    Three teams of high-school students from the Club de Física Enrico Fermi (Vigo, Spain), the Elsewedy Technical Academy (STA) (Cairo, Egypt), and the École du Sacré-Coeur (Reims, France) have won the 2022 edition of the Beamline for Schools competition

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  • Brazil to become an Associate Member State of CERN

    Brazil to become an Associate Member State of CERN

    On 3 March 2022, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Brazilian Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Marcos Pontes signed an agreement admitting Brazil as an Associate Member State of CERN

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  • CERN unveils quantum research programme

    CERN unveils quantum research programme

    CERN QTI reaches its next milestone today, with the unveiling of a first roadmap defining its medium- and long-term quantum research programme

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  • Professor Eliezer Rabinovici elected as next President of the CERN Council

    Professor Eliezer Rabinovici elected as next President of the CERN Council

    The CERN Council today announced the election of Professor Eliezer Rabinovici as its 24th president, for a period of one year

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  • Two high-school teams from Italy and Mexico win the CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    Two high-school teams from Italy and Mexico win the CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    Two teams of high-school students from the Liceo Scientifico Statale “A. Scacchi” (Bari, Italy) and the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria “Plantel 2” (Mexico City, Mexico) have won the 2021 edition of the Beamline for Schools competition

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