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News from the Library: CERN Scientific Book Fair 2012
A two-day event in building 500 offers the opportunity to meet key publishers and to browse and buy books at significant discounts
Inspiring a generation
It was particularly pleasing to see science, the LHC and Higgs bosons featuring so strongly in the opening ceremony of the Paralympics last week
Windows XP ends at CERN – register for Windows 7 training
Windows XP has been around for over 10 years and it is now time to move on
Testing begins on Linear accelerator 4
Linac 4 has begun testing its RFQ module. This is the first stage of testing for the Linac 2 successor
Warmer amps for the LHC
CERN is working together with an Italian company to develop superconducting cables that can function at temperatures of up to 25 K (-248°C)
Magnets for the High Luminosity LHC: Small but powerful
A CERN-Fermilab team has developed a new magnet that will be a valuable asset to the HL-LHC, the next step of for LHC machine
Strength in diversity
The laboratory is launching a new diversity programme aimed at strengthening our tradition of inclusiveness. I encourage all at CERN to take part
Bringing physics training to Africa
The African School of Physics was held in Ghana this summer, where lecturers from CERN shared their expertise with 50 motivated students
CERN experiments to present latest on quark-gluon plasma
Heavy-ion experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will present their latest results at the Quark Matter 2012 conference
Cosmic rays discovered 100 years ago
Today marks 100 years since Victor Hess made last of series of balloon flights leading to the discovery of cosmic rays