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Harriet is CERN's web editor and a science writer in the CERN communications team.
CERN’s energy coordinator showcased the laboratory’s energy efficiency plans as worldwide research institutes met to discuss energy sustainability
For Halloween meet CERN’s very own WITCH experiment at ISOLDE, as it nears the end of its data analysis
Students and teachers from the Middle East invited to CERN to explore opportunities that arise from international collaboration in science
CERN and INEUSTAR, the Spanish Science Industry Association, sign agreement to support businesses in developing CERN technologies
CERN gets its own top-level domain and moves the core website to http://home.cern
Award-winning artist, Jeff Frost – who will present at CERN’s TEDx this week – captures CERN’s colourful side
In September 1995 physicists at CERN synthesised the first antihydrogen atoms, paving the way for today’s growing antimatter research
A Business Incubation Centre of CERN technologies agreement was signed today in conjunction with the Helsinki Institute of Physics
