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The came for motivation, for answers, and 'because it's CERN' – participants in the July 2012 programme share their experiences
Some 500 particle physicists meeting in Krakow, Poland, this week debated the long-term future of their field at the CERN Council Open Symposium
Today's HR report shows a beautiful round number of CERN personnel
A two-day event in building 500 offers the opportunity to meet key publishers and to browse and buy books at significant discounts
It was particularly pleasing to see science, the LHC and Higgs bosons featuring so strongly in the opening ceremony of the Paralympics last week
The HSE Unit would like to express its opinion in the light of the road accident statistics involving personnel at CERN
Computer security advice from CERN's head of computer security Stefan Lüders
The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) and the Slovak University of Technology jointly organized a course on ion sources in Senec, Slovakia
