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The first result to emerge from the HIE-ISOLDE accelerator is the confirmation that the tin-132 nucleus belongs to the doubly magic group of nuclei
CERN and the European particle physics community have submitted a wealth of contributions to shape the future of the discipline
Video recordings of the 2018 lectures on the theme of gravity are now available on the Wright Colloquium’s website
Half a century ago, theorist Gabriele Veneziano visited CERN and wrote a paper that wound up marking the beginning of string theory
The British Royal Society is organising a scientific meeting entitled "Non-equilibrium superconductivity and spintronics" on 25-26 February 2019
The 2019 CERN Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics is open for applications
The ATLAS collaboration presents its latest search for heavy Majorana neutrinos
The final days of the LHC proton physics Run II are here
On 24 October, the LHC Operations team flipped the switch in the LHC island of the CCC to dump the last proton production fill of Run 2
