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In a year where the LHC delivered nearly as much data in a week as it did previously in a month, the ATLAS experiment went from strength to strength
In the recent lead-proton run at the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment took proton-ion data for the first time
The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment took proton-ion data for the first time last month
A study published in collaboration with ISOLDE-CERN confirms that certain terbium isotopes are effective in diagnosing and treating tumours
A new ion trap has been integrated into ISOLTRAP, the ISOLDE experiment that measures the mass of short-lived nuclides
A Higgs-like boson, more new particles and record performance at the LHC: 2012 has been good to CERN
TIME magazine today named ATLAS spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti as a runner-up for Person of the Year. A certain Higgs-like boson was also mentioned...
