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Paola Catapano heads the Audiovisual Production Service for theCERN communications group.
Selected out of more than 22 500 applicants, CERN engineer Sławosz Uznański from Poland has been chosen as one of the 11 members of the ESA 2022 astronaut class in the reserve pool
On the occasion of the EUCAS 2017 conference, superconducting magnets and cavities were turned into musical instruments
The 200th ISS spacewalk included a new installation on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)
For International Women’s day 2016, CERN showcases some of the women from the six decades of CERN’s history
Particles were successfully injected into the LHC last weekend, passing through three sectors of the accelerator
During 2015, the International Year of Light, CERN is highlighting the High Luminosity LHC project and CERN’s involvement in the SESAME laboratory
To celebrate European Researchers Night 2014, CERN researchers took their science to downtown Geneva and neighbouring France with “PopScience”
The 4th International Conference on Particle and Fundamental Physics in Space (SpacePart12) will take place at CERN from 5 November to 7 November 2012
