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Anaïs Schaeffer is a reporter for the CERN communications group.
The SCINT 2017 conference on scintillation and its applications took place between 18 and 22 September
This year, the 214 CERN teams participating in Bike2Work cycled a total of 140 395 km!
After munching their way around the Globe, the CERN sheep are now dining out next to the ATLAS experiment
On Friday, 30 June, the civil-engineering work for Building 311 was completed, with the final delivery of the building expected by the end of 2017
On 16 June, CERN welcomed the President of the Republic of Mauritius and the President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
CERN has set up three seismic monitoring stations to listen to the earth’s vibrations and their impact on the LHC
A new slow-extraction technique using a silicon crystal aims to reduce beam losses by a factor of four
Five technical apprentices left CERN in 2016 after obtaining their "certificat fédéral de capacité"
On 19 January, Roberto Saban was named a Commander of the Italian Republic
The HR department has adopted a new recruitment tool that will enhance the recruitment process both for CERN and for candidates
Michel Della Negra, Peter Jenni and Tejinder Virdee, former spokespersons of ATLAS and CMS, will be presented with the 2017 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize
UNOSAT, UNITAR’s operational satellite applications programme, based at CERN, celebrates 15 years of supporting humanitarian work