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Network interruptions on 27-28 August may occur as the IT Department performs a major reorganisation of CERN's General Purpose Network
The service currently located on the fourth floor of Building 5 will be moving to the first floor of Building 653 from September 2016
After a summer break, the CERN Entrepreneurship Meet-Ups (EM-Us) will start again on 23 August 2016
CERN had a major presence at the ESOF2016 conference this week, largely in collaboration with our partners in EIROforum
Last week, Fabiola was at the biennial EuroScience Open Forum, ESOF2016, Europe’s biggest public-facing scientific event
The MoEDAL experiment at CERN narrows the window of where to search for a hypothetical particle, the magnetic monopole.
Particle physicists are showcasing a wealth of brand new results from the Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN at the “ICHEP 2016” conference in Chicago.
This year marks the 10,000th teacher to visit CERN since its first teacher programme in 1998
According to TripAdvisor, CERN is Geneva’s top tourist attraction, welcoming almost 110,000 visitors per year
As Romania has now become a Member State of CERN, Romanian scientists share their thoughts about this new era of partnership for their community