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When science goes beyond borders
When science goes beyond borders One of the three border posts on the CERN site is back in its usual place. These posts bear testimony to fragments of CERN’s history This is not a story of mere stones. You will probably have noticed some of the numbered posts along the 103 km border between France
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Let’s wander in the forest
Let’s wander in the forest A series of visits were organised in November to help discover horse-logging at CERN BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://voisins.cern/en/lets-wander-forest) Some of the activities at CERN can be rustic. More than 65 CERN people discovered in November the horse-logging technique during a series of visits organised by the
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TEDxCERN: A remarkable elephant in the room
TEDxCERN: A remarkable elephant in the room As with each edition, this year’s TEDxCERN triggered a high dose of inspiration and raised a multitude of questions in terms of science, technology and the future of humankind BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://voisins.cern/en/tedxcern-remarkable-elephant-room) The “Elephant in the room” theme was matched by a carefully
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Photo exhibition: “Breaking the mould”
Photo exhibition: “Breaking the mould” The VolMeur collection of decayed slides about the construction of the LEP will be exhibited in the old town of Geneva At CERN, alongside around 450 000 perfectly preserved photographic snapshots, a few hundred slides illustrating the remarkable construction of the electron positron collider (LEP) had been forgotten. Poorly preserved,
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CERN, guest of honour at Ferney-Voltaire Fête de la Science
CERN, guest of honour at Ferney-Voltaire Fête de la Science On 13 October 2018, CERN was guest of honour of the City of Ferney-Voltaire for the Fête de la Science, organised by the association Pangloss On Saturday, 13 October 2018, CERN was guest of honour of the City of Ferney-Voltaire for the Fête de la
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My project in 15 minutes: A successful cross-border colloquium
My project in 15 minutes: A successful cross-border colloquium CERN invited pupils from both sides of the border to the cross-border symposium “Mon TPE/TM en 15 minutes” (“My project in 15 minutes”), on Friday 12 October As part of a collaboration with Swiss and French schools, CERN invited pupils from both sides of the border
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Researchers’ Night at CERN attracted thousand of visitors
Researchers’ Night at CERN attracted thousand of visitors Thousands of visitors traversed the brand-new Esplanade des Particules on the occasion of Researchers’ Night The twenty-two flags of the CERN Member States are fluttering again in front of the Meyrin site. Last Friday, they were hoisted by scientists from each Member State during the inauguration ceremony
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Public presentations of the HL-LHC project
Public presentations of the HL-LHC project CERN scientists will meet their neighbours to present the HL-LHC project and answer questions The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC): the future of the LHC CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It has operated successfully since 2008 and at very high
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CERN is guest of honour at Swiss National Day in Geneva
CERN is guest of honour at Swiss National Day in Geneva On 1 August 2018, CERN was the City of Geneva’s guest of honour at the Swiss National Day celebrations at Parc La Grange The CERN tent, offering workshops, virtual reality tours, physics demonstrations, educational games and the new “Particle Identities” quiz, was never empty
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Summer science events
Summer science events Each summer, CERN goes out to meet the general public in the local area, offering visitors a refreshing science cocktail. This year, the summer events began at the end of June with the CineGlobe international film festival. On the theme of “Intelligent futures”, the festival explored the world of artificial intelligence. The
