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  • CERN announces first winners of the Accelerate@CERN arts programme

    CERN announces first winners of the Accelerate@CERN arts programme CERN today announces the first winners of the Laboratory’s new Accelerate @ CERN programme – a one-month research award for artists Geneva, 18 June 2014. CERN1 today announces the first winners of the Laboratory’s new Accelerate @ CERN programme – a one-month research award for artists2.

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  • CERN announces winners of its first beam line for schools competition

    CERN announces winners of its first beam line for schools competition CERN today announced the winners of its first beam line for schools competition Geneva, 6 June 2014. Following almost 300 submissions from school groups around the world, two teams have been selected to come to CERN to carry out their own experiments at a

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  • Full speed ahead!

    Full speed ahead!

    Full speed ahead! When he’s not working at CERN, Jean-Yves Le Meur is a top-level skier. Fresh from the Winter Paralympics in Sochi and the French disability snowsport championship, he has agreed to answer a few questions Few athletes can boast of having participated in the Olympic or Paralympic Games even once in their sporting

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  • CERN and ESA sign cooperation agreement

    CERN and ESA sign cooperation agreement

    CERN and ESA sign cooperation agreement CERN and ESA today signed a framework agreement for future cooperation on research and technology in areas of mutual interest BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://voisins.cern/en/cern-and-esa-sign-cooperation-agreement) Geneva, 28 March 2014. At a ceremony today at Geneva airport, CERN1 and ESA signed a framework agreement for future cooperation

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  • CERN celebrates 60 years of science for peace

    CERN celebrates 60 years of science for peace CERN is celebrating 60 years of science for peace in 2014, with events at the Organization’s Geneva laboratory and in its Members States Geneva, 18 March 2014. CERN1 is celebrating 60 years of science for peace in 2014, with events at the Organization’s Geneva laboratory and in

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  • 10th edition of the International Masterclasses in Particle Physics to attract more than 10,000 high-school students worldwide

    10th edition of the International Masterclasses in Particle Physics to attract more than 10,000 high-school students worldwide Each year in spring, research institutes and universities around the world invite students and their teachers for a day-long programme to experience life at the forefront of basic research Geneva, 10 March 2014. Each year in spring, research

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  • CERN prepares its long-term future

    CERN prepares its long-term future

    CERN prepares its long-term future The HL (High Luminosity) LHC is CERN’s number-one priority and will increase the number of collisions accumulated in the experiments by a factor of ten from 2024 onwards Geneva, 6 February 2014. Particle physics takes the long-term view. Originally conceived in the 1980s, the LHC took another 25 years to

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  • The Music of Physics – Third open competition, Collide@CERN Geneva 2014 award announced

    The Music of Physics – Third open competition, Collide@CERN Geneva 2014 award announced CERN, the City and The Republic and Canton of Geneva announce today the 2014 open competition for the Collide @ CERN Geneva artist in residency award. The form of art for 2014 will be music, which has a special affinity with physics

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  • CERN announces Accelerate@CERN programme for artists

    CERN announces Accelerate@CERN programme for artists

    CERN announces Accelerate@CERN programme for artists CERN is launching Accelerate@CERN, its new country specific one month research award for artists CERN is launching Accelerate@CERN, its new country specific one month research award for artists. It is the sister strand of CERN’s flagship artists residency programme, Collide@CERN. Every year, two countries will fund two different artistic

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  • CERN congratulates Englert and Higgs on Nobel in physics

    CERN congratulates Englert and Higgs on Nobel in physics

    CERN congratulates Englert and Higgs on Nobel in physics The 2013 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their theoretical work on the Higgs boson CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the Nobel prize in physics “for the theoretical discovery of a

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