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Two high-school teams from Italy and Canada had the opportunity to conduct their own experiments at a fully-equipped CERN beamline
Many visitors (re)discovered CERN at Researchers' Night and the United Nations Office in Geneva Open Day
All members and beneficiaries of the Pension Fund are invited to attend the Annual Information Meeting to be held on Thursday 19 October 2017
An agreement was established between CERN and the "Complexe sportif de Maisonnex" so that holders of the Blue (C) CERN card can enjoy a 15% reduction
Everyone at CERN, including visitors, will soon have to wear a badge visibly at all times
The Other Side of Innovation is a day to discover what IdeaSquare has to offer and how you can get involved through talks, projects, workshops...
The 4th Developers@CERN Forum will be held on 23 and 24 October in IdeaSquare - Submit your abstract now!
Registration for the 2018 session of the Joint Universities Accelerator School (JUAS) is now open
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for the detection of gravitational waves
Tonight, CERN will be open to the general public to celebrate science
CERN and the HUG combined their efforts in an accident simulation
The change of Ombud provides a good opportunity to look back at the reasons why CERN established the Ombud’s office back in 2011
