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CERN's director for research and computing gives an overview about the CERN Neutrino platform activities
As the year draws to a close, I’d like to wish you and your families a very well deserved end-of-year break
How the Theory Department contributes to the evolving research of particle physics and the CERN research programme
Our target for the integrated luminosity for 2016 was 25 inverse femtobarns. We reached 40
Large volumes of high-quality data may be a challenge, but addressing it brings innovation
Creation of a Physics Beyond Colliders study group to provide input to the next update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics
Martin Steinacher introdueces the new CERN career structure
Eckhard attends the 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2016, hosted this year by the US particle physics community
Last week, Fabiola was at the biennial EuroScience Open Forum, ESOF2016, Europe’s biggest public-facing scientific event
With physics data-taking under way this week at the LHC, I’d like to take a look at what’s been happening at the rest of the CERN accelerator chain.
Charlotte Warakaulle shares her vision for the new International Relations (IR) Sector.
“Physics for all” ran the cover story on the March issue of Physics World magazine, and it's a sentiment that we can surely all put our weight behind.