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A new laser architecture based on fibres could open the door to applications beyond particle physics
CMS physicists will be answering questions from school students as part of a free online event to get young people excited about science
A three-day symposium starting today in Bonn, Germany, celebrates the life of renowned physicist Wolfgang Paul
Check out the official logo from CERN's graphic design team for the laboratory's upcoming 60th anniversary celebrations
Registration is now open for “Controls for Accelerators and Detectors”in Athens, Greece, on 2 and 3 December
Registration is now open for the Academia-Industry Matching Event “Controls for Accelerators and Detectors”, in Athens, Greece, on 2 and 3 December
A week of events at a London school brought artists and science educators together
Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration could accelerate electrons to the terascale in a single plasma section
Frédérick Bordry, chair of the second workshop on Energy for Sustainable Science, on how CERN is contributing to the Sustainable Science conversation
Scientists, politicians, the public, students, our neighbours, you: these groups of people all have a stake in CERN, and all are important to us
Don’t miss the chance to join CERN as a summer student and work on some of the world's biggest experiments. Applications are now open for summer 2014!
