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Grid computing founder: 'Science needs to travel faster'
Ian Foster, one of the founders of grid computing, on the challenges of big data
The basics of the Higgs boson
In this animated lesson for TED-Ed, CERN physicists David Barney and Steven Goldfarb use the Socratic method to explain the Higgs boson
Orbital welding on the Large Hadron Collider
Watch Said Atieh of Engineering department explain some of the unique challenges of welding on the LHC
A fundamental property of the rarest element on Earth
An international team of physicists at ISOLDE have for the first time measured the ionization potential of the rare radioactive element astatine
First observations of short-lived pear-shaped atomic nuclei
An international team at the ISOLDE radioactive-beam facility at CERN has shown that some atomic nuclei can assume asymmetric, "pear" shapes
CERN and OpenAIREplus launch European research repository
Zenodo, hosted at CERN, will researchers to share publications and supporting data more easily
Lab-made liquid may cause strange particle behaviour
A new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious "ridge effect"
Webcast: Ig Nobel show
Marc Abrahams, editor of the <em>Annals of Improbable Research</em> will be presenting the Ig Nobel show at the University of Geneva today
The birth of a Higgs boson
Physicists from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations explain how they came to identify the new particle of 2012 as "a Higgs boson"