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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
CERN firefighters are working with a research centre in the United States to develop more effective firefighting techniques
On 19 July, the world-famous, English rock band, Muse, visited CERN before taking centre-stage at Nyon’s Paléo Festival
Are you passionate about science? Do you like communicating that passion to the general public? Then come along to the CERN Summer Student Webfeet!
Pre-registration is open for the fourth annual Beamline for Schools competition
Young Turkish student Baris Volkan Gürses visited CERN from 4 to 8 July after winning the prize in the 2015 European Contest for Young Scientists
Almost ten years after the start of the programme in 2007, the hundredth Gentner Doctoral Student started his PhD at CERN