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Cian O'Luanaigh was the web editor in the CERN communications group from 2011-2015.
"Wandering the immeasurable" – a 15-tonne sculpture next to the Globe of Science and Innovation – was inaugurated at a ceremony on Saturday
A new documentary charts the progress of the physics-education project "Playing with Protons", a collaboration between CERN and a Greek primary school
People across the globe put their questions to CERN in an "Ask Me Anything" session on reddit, on the topic of "Open Science, Open Data & More"
CERN signs agreement to provide technology and expert training for a new business-incubation centre in Thessaloniki
The award-winning OpenStack cloud at CERN will grow from 75,000 to over 100,000 processing cores for LHC Run 2
CERN & Society is launching its "giving" website – a portal to allow donors to contribute to various projects
CERN staff and users from across departments worked together to ensure the success of student experiments at the T9 beamline
After a week of shifts on the T9 beamline, two teams of high-school students are ready to analyse data from their CERN experiment
Physicists at CERN are busy preparing the T9 beam line to host experiments by the winners of the <em>Beamline for Schools</em> competition
The Universe of Particles exhibition in CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation has won a certificate of excellence from the travel website TripAdvisor
Today all over France, students answered questions about CERN in their science exams as part of the Baccalauréat Général