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The Joint Universities Accelerator School in Archamps, France, has celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday
Female scientists visited 108 local classrooms to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The SCINT 2017 conference on scintillation and its applications took place between 18 and 22 September
We met some of alumni of the African School of Physics alumni, who are now working at CERN
The Standard Model Lagrangian equation, seen on t-shirts and mugs from CERN, is explained line-by-line in a new paper aimed at teachers
S'cool Lab Summer Camp invites 16 to 19 year olds to spend 2 weeks exploring the fascinating world of particle physics at CERN
The fourth biennial African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications took place on 1-19 August in Africa’s cleanest city, Kigali in Rwanda.
The third Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, AEPSHEP2016, to be held near Beijing, China, 12-25 October 2016, is open for applications
This year's school will be held in Norway from 15-28 June. Register by 19 February 2016
The Langton Ultimate Cosmic-ray Intensity Detector used CERN Medipix particle detectors to collect data from space
This year's school will be held in Bulgaria from 2-15 September. Register by 15 May 2015