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New CERN facility can help medical research into cancer
Today, the new CERN-MEDICIS facility has produced radioisotopes for medical research for the first time. MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) aims to provide a wide range of radioisotopes, some of which can be produced only at CERN.
Crab cavities: colliding protons head-on
The crab cavities, a new technology to brighten up the future, will play an important role in the High-Luminosity LHC
At the LHC, tomorrow is already here
Before the LHC was shut down for the winter, the operators tested techniques under development for its successor, the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC)
How to produce the purest argon ever?
CERN is helping to align and test a 350-metre column to produce extra-pure argon for a dark-matter search experiment
A very special run for the LHCb experiment
During the 2017 LHC special runs, the LHCb experiment collected proton-proton and proton-neon data simultaneously for the first time
AWAKE: Closer to a breakthrough acceleration technology
The last components of AWAKE – its electron source, electron beam line and electron spectrometer – have just been installed
First light for pioneering SESAME light source
At 10:50 yesterday morning, scientists at the pioneering SESAME light source saw First Monochromatic Light through the XAFS/XRF spectroscopy beamline, signalling the start of the laboratory’s experimental programme.
CERN surprises Swiss expo visitors
CERN was the guest of honour at the Automnales, Geneva’s huge annual fair: ten days of encounters and exchanges with the general public.
50 years since iconic 'A Model of Leptons' published
Steven Weinberg’s iconic paper, A Model of Leptons, was published in 1967 and determined the direction for high-energy particle physics research
Record luminosity: well done LHC
The LHC’s 2017 proton run has ended with record luminosity. The special runs will now take place before the winter shutdown.