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The 26th edition of the Hardronic Festival has been yet another great success for many reasons
What does a potato-powered theremin have to do with the work done at CERN?
Further to the official communication on 12 July 2017, please note that a corrected version of the CHIS Rules has been released
Want to learn about the projects the CERN openlab summer students have been working on? Then come along to the “lighting talk” sessions on 11 & 15.08
The HSE Unit would like to inform you that the Safety Bulletins 2017-1, 2 and 3 have been released
The flagpole car park has been permanently closed since work on the Esplanade des Particules started in April 2017
EPS-HEP covered a great range of topics and showed that the various disciplines that make up fundamental physics are coming closer and closer together
The first MERIT exercise has been underway since December 2016 and, as we near its final stages, now is a good time to look at initial results
Groups of physics students are invited, along with their teachers, to research and propose an idea for an experiment
Hélène Langevin-Joliot, physicist and granddaughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, visited CERN at the end of June
We are deeply moved by the sudden disappearance of Dr. Vinod Chohan
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