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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!
CERN is launching Accelerate@CERN, its new country specific one month research award for artists
The XENON100 experiment searches for the interactions of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in a target of 62 kg of liquid xenon
The recent CERN Open Days hosted talks on topics from antimatter and the Higgs boson to the anthropology of science. Watch the talks online
Members of the personnel with dependent children aged 20 to 25 are invited to provide the Education fees service with a school certificate
Watch the webcast today at 11am CET of the latest results of supersymmetry searches by the ATLAS experiment
The 2013 International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS13) will be held at the Hongo Campus of the University of Tokyo, Japan
Cameras were rolling in CERN's building 40 when members of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations heard the news live from Stockholm
On Monday 14 October, the Service Status Board for GS and IT will change
