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Sarah Charley is a writer in the communications group at CERN, focussing on US involvement with the LHC.
Giant thermometer can measure the temperatures of liquid argon inside massive neutrino-detector prototype at 48 different depths
Lead "atoms" with a single remaining electron swirl around the Large Hadron Collider
While 31 October may mean Halloween to some, to laboratories around the world it means Dark Matter Day
Meet the two prototypes under construction at CERN for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
The neutrino detector’s road-trip comes to an end as it nestles into its new home near Chicago
Works have started today, in the USA, for the LBNF facility that will host giant neutrino detectors. Their prototypes are being developed at CERN.
Videos from the 4th annual TEDxCERN event “Ripples of Curiosity” are online and available for viewing
CERN hosts its fourth TEDxCERN – “Ripples of Curiosity” – to explore how ideas in science, technology and education are converging and creating waves
The Large Hadron Collider is now producing more than a billion proton-proton collisions per second
This year’s TEDxCERN invites you to satisfy curious minds worldwide by hosting a webcasting event
Physicists are using LHC detector technology to retrieve Native American music from old recordings
Today at CERN His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa discussed science and perception with CERN researchers