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TED-Ed is a free educational website for teachers and learners.
This week’s TEDxCERN 2018 is more than just an afternoon show in downtown Geneva. It’s a whole series of events and initiatives designed to engage an audience from CERN and beyond
An animation made with TED-ED to explore empty space and why it is important for experiments at CERN
TEDed and CERN physicist Chloé Malbrunot team up to test the principle of universality of free fall for antimatter
TEDed and particle physicist at CERN Jasper Kirkby come together to animate the effect of clouds on the Earth’s climate
AMS physicist Veronica Bindi narrates a quirky explanation of particles from outer space
This Wednesday 24 September CERN will host its second TEDxCERN event. Find out how best to follow the action
In an animated video for the Ted-Ed education network, Fermilab's Don Lincoln explains the Higgs field with an analogy about a cocktail party
In this animated lesson for TED-Ed, CERN physicists David Barney and Steven Goldfarb use the Socratic method to explain the Higgs boson
Where is the missing antimatter? CERN scientist Rolf Landua teams up with TED-Ed animators to explain the disparity that allows us to exist
CERN head of communications James Gillies teams up with TED-Ed animators to bring you this animated explanation of the matter we can't see
Tim Smith of the CERN IT department teams up with TED-Ed animators to explain how CERN has tackled its Big Data challenge over the years
CERN scientists team up with TED-Ed animators to bring you the first of a series of five animations about physics