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CERN’s EU Projects Office announces a relaunch of its newsletter starting in November 2021
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Astronaut Thomas Pesquet has activated Lumina, an optical fibre-based dosimetry experiment on board the International Space Station
On World Intellectual Property Day 2021, see how intellectual property lies at the core of successful knowledge transfer at CERN
Stunning new images pave the way for large-scale human trials, two years on from the first ever 3D colour human X-ray using CERN Medipix3 technology
An open hardware CERN design is helping people with hearing loss during the COVID-19 pandemic
CERN’s Timepix particle detectors, developed by the Medipix2 Collaboration, help unravel the secret of a long-lost painting by the great Renaissance master, Raphael