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Rolf Heuer took part in the first day of a four-day scientific celebration in which the true value of ICTP came to the fore
Watch the celebrations, streaming live from the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 10am EDT
Certain members of the personnel residing in France have received a letter concerning changes in the health insurance coverage of “frontalier" workers
The Collider exhibition is about to start a three-year long international tour, starting in Paris at the Palais de la Découverte
At 19:03 last night, a fire in an 18kV circuit breaker in building 212 led to a blackout on the Meyrin site
Some members of the CERN personnel residing in France have been informed by letter that they are eligible for subsidised energy prices
With new precision measurements of the Higgs boson, ATLAS has observed its decay to two W bosons.
Some 175 pupils from the Pays de Gex and the Canton of Geneva took part in a colloquium entitled "La science en partage” (‘shared science’)
To celebrate European Researchers Night 2014, CERN researchers took their science to downtown Geneva and neighbouring France with “PopScience”
Applications to the 2015 school, which will be held in Ibarra, Ecuador, are open until 14 November
