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Today at CERN His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa discussed science and perception with CERN researchers
Give blood Tuesday 31 March between 9am and 4pm in building 504 (Restaurant 2)
The success of the LS1, the restart of accelerators and the impact of the high value of the Swiss franc were discussed during CERN Council meeting.
A workshop in DESY looked at what the data from HERA can still offer for experiments, now and in the future
Don't miss today's webcast at 5.30pm celebrating 50 years of particle physics at the Rencontres de Moriond in Italy
Thomas Otto, a TE Departmental Safety Officer, won the English category of the POPScience poetry competition, with three poems inspired by CERN
The 5th edition of the CineGlobe International Film Festival celebrates the theme “Convergence”
Invest on sustaining the intellectual bridges that Europe has painstakingly put in place, says CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer
Student teams have just one month to submit their proposals to conduct an experiment at a working CERN beamline
Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics has started a new future in rare isotopes
