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The annual scholarship is open to young scholars from a CMS institute or an institute with an expression of interest to join CMS
A key observation at the LHC marks a major milestone in a 30-year-long journey
Construction began today on the CERN MEDICIS research facility, which will make radioactive isotopes for medical applications
A new video from LHCb lets you hear particles changing from matter to antimatter and back again
With the IceCube and ANTARES telescopes completed, there was plenty to discuss at the second Workshop on Exotic Physics with Neutrino Telescopes
Work on the ALICE Photon Spectrometer will make it faster and more stable
When you've got a discrepancy in the data, it might be time for theory and experiment to collaborate
In less than a month three young scientists from ISOLDE's EC-SLI collaboration won awards at international conferences
The ALICE experiment is optimized to perform in the environment of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, which can produce thousands of particles
The Italian Physical Society awarded five physicists for discoveries at the LHC
Today in Stockholm, two CERN collaborations will present measurements of one of the rarest measureable processes in physics
This week, CERN will be hosting a seminar entitled The music of physics and the physics of music at the Montreux Jazz Festival