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Charlotte Warakaulle talks about the march for science that will take place in Geneva
What is a good measure of the activity of the Technical Infrastructure team? The number of phone calls
CERN participated in the Geneva Global Goals innovation Day to engage with the public and show CERN tackles UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
A round up of the upgrades and maintenance during the 2016/2017 extended year-end technical stop
System modifications to answer the increase of requests on site
The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) organised a specialised course on Beam Injection, Extraction and Transfer in Erice, Sicily from 10 to 19 March 2017
The Standard Model Lagrangian equation, seen on t-shirts and mugs from CERN, is explained line-by-line in a new paper aimed at teachers
At the 52nd Rencontres de Moriond conference CERN collaborations presented many new results, including their first ones with the full 13 TeV dataset
The winners of the four artist residency awards for 2017
On 31 March 2017 the submission period ended for the fourth Beamline for Schools competition
The Etat de Genève and CERN are today announcing the imminent start of work just outside the CERN site to create the brand-new Esplanade des Particules, a space worthy of Europe’s leading laboratory for particle physics.
From 12 April, the Flags Car Park will be permanently closed
