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High school teachers are invited apply online now to visit CERN’s S’Cool LAB for a full day of guided tours and hands-on experiment workshops
40 years ago this week, the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerated its first particles
Once again, the CERN Running Club has caused a stir at the Tour du Canton de Genève.
South Korean artist, Yunchul Kim has won the 2016 COLLIDE Award to spend a two month residency at CERN
Martin Steinacher, Director for Finance and Human Resources, writes to CERN personnel about diversity at the Organisation
Apply for our humanitarian hackathon taking place in IdeaSquare at CERN, from the 14th to the 16th October
Come and join the CERN ISEF special award winners at their lightning talks session on 16 June at 3.00 p.m. in the main auditorium.
Join CineGlobe under a projected starry sky for a film festival and games with a neuroscience twist
CERN Knowledge Transfer group is hosting an Entrepreneur Mixer, an event dedicated to building bridges between CERN and innovative entrepreneurs
On the initiative of the Office National des Forêts, France’s forestry commission, horses are helping to remove trees cut down in CERN’s forests
Two teams of high-school students, from Poland and the UK, will travel to CERN in September to conduct experiments using a CERN accelerator beam
