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Today at CERN, a symposium will highlight the great LEP adventure and will celebrate the 90th birthday of the former CERN DG, Herwig Schopper
Sign up now for the workshop, which will be held on Thursday 18 September 2014 in the Business Center Technoparc in Saint-Genis-Pouilly
The Booster Synchrotron – a key machine at the SESAME facility in Jordan – is now operating at full design energy
On Friday 26 September 2014, CERN will be celebrating European Researchers' Night at three venues in Geneva and St. Genis-Pouilly
Particle accelerators: Vectors of discovery, engines of development
CERN is celebrating 60 years of science for peace with an official ceremony and several public events taking place throughout September
SESAME needs external top-down help and encouragement to ensure timely completion, says Chris Llewellyn Smith
New “traffic-calming” measures have been set up near Restaurant 2, to encourage drivers to slow down to safe speeds
The International School of Trigger and Data Acquisition will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 28 January
Fermilab's new flagship neutrino-oscillation experiment, NOvA, has recorded its first neutrinos
