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CERN QTI reaches its next milestone today, with the unveiling of a first roadmap defining its medium- and long-term quantum research programme
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A Business Incubation Centre of CERN technologies agreement was signed today in conjunction with the Helsinki Institute of Physics
The CLIC study could transfer its X-band expertise to light sources and medical applications