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Cian O'Luanaigh was the web editor in the CERN communications group from 2011-2015.
Comic-book artist Remco Polman delivers the first pages of a comic about particle physics, co-written with high school students on a visit to CERN
In his keynote address at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, Rolf Heuer pushed investment in science and "co-opetition"
In his keynote address at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, Rolf Heuer pushed investment in science, and "co-opetition"
An interactive timeline from the ALICE collaboration tells the story of the detector from its design to current upgrade work
The toy company LEGO will consider building a miniature ATLAS detector after the design gained 10,000 votes on a fan website
A ground-breaking ceremony today marked the start of construction of an extension to CERN's antimatter facility
In a workshop today at CERN, speakers at the EUCARD'13 meeting discussed challenges for the next 50 years of accelerator physics
Watch a quadrupole magnet being lowered into the ALICE cavern for transportation to its required spot on the LHC
A series of ATLAS Virtual Visits this week are inspiring physics students in North Africa
In this animated lesson for TED-Ed, CERN physicists David Barney and Steven Goldfarb use the Socratic method to explain the Higgs boson
Watch Said Atieh of Engineering department explain some of the unique challenges of welding on the LHC
An international team of physicists at ISOLDE have for the first time measured the ionization potential of the rare radioactive element astatine