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Cian O'Luanaigh was the web editor in the CERN communications group from 2011-2015.
CERN's head of communications James Gillies was awarded the Global Business Communicator of the year award at an event in Mumbai, India on Friday
The project was awarded "Best Online Event" at an awards ceremony in Berlin, Germany, last week
The switch - a test for a longer proton-lead run scheduled for January to February 2013 - presented numerous technical challenges
The space-shuttle crew laid a European Physical Society plaque at high-altitude research centre <em>Les Cosmiques</em> near <em>Mont Blanc</em>
Excellent accelerator performance and a higher running energy has ensured the LHC has delivered collisions quickly this year
There's more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. Check out what the non-LHC experiments will be getting up to this year
Find out the schedule for LHC beams and the physics the LHC experiments will be investigating this year
