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Students pitch innovative ideas to tackle healthcare issues using particle accelerators in 10-day challenge

Global healthcare issues – from prosthesis pain to severe burns – were targeted by four student teams in the I.FAST project’s third challenge-based initiative

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Knowledge sharing
20 August, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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20 August, 2024

CERN70: Where the Web was born…

Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in 1989 for an information management system called the World Wide Web

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Computing
20 August, 2024
Computing
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20 August, 2024

Re-engineering radiotherapy

The Smart Technologies to Extend Lives with Linear Accelerators (STELLA) project aims to turn technology developed for particle physics into a novel radiotherapy system suited to the challenging environments of low- and middle-income countries

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Knowledge sharing
14 August, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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14 August, 2024

Cosmic count exceeds expectation

The AMS detector on board the International Space Station has found more cosmic rays made of deuterons than expected

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Physics
13 August, 2024
Physics
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13 August, 2024

ALICE does the double slit

Using collisions between lead nuclei at the LHC, the ALICE collaboration has measured an interference pattern akin to that of the famous double-slit experiment

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Physics
12 August, 2024
Physics
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12 August, 2024

NA62 announces its first search for long-lived particles

CERN’s kaon factory pushes the energy frontier to probe uncharted territories of many beyond-the-Standard-Model theories

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Physics
09 August, 2024

Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antiprotons

The experiment has developed a new device for cooling antiprotons more efficiently and for considerably increasing the precision of measurements of their fundamental properties

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Experiments
02 August, 2024

AMBER releases its first results

The experiment’s preliminary results explore the production cross section of the antiproton, which may provide physicists with clues in the search for dark matter

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Physics
02 August, 2024
Physics
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02 August, 2024

CERN70: Green light for LEP

Herwig Schopper was Director-General of CERN from 1981 to 1988, during which time the Large Electron Positron collider was approved and constructed

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At CERN
31 July, 2024
At CERN
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31 July, 2024

ATLAS probes uncharted territory with LHC Run 3 data

The ATLAS collaboration has released its first results from searches for new physics phenomena conducted with data from Run 3 of the LHC

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Physics
26 July, 2024