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ATLAS undergoes some delicate gymnastics

The LHC’s first long shutdown has provided the opportunity for a major programme of consolidation and improvements on the ATLAS detector

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Engineering
02 October, 2013
Engineering
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02 October, 2013

CERN Open Days: 70,000 happy visitors

Some 70,000 people visited CERN this weekend for the Open Days – and 20,000 of them went underground

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At CERN
30 September, 2013
At CERN
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30 September, 2013

CERN Open Days: Follow the action

If you can’t make it to CERN for the Open Days this weekend, don’t worry! There are a number of ways you can follow the action from home

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At CERN
27 September, 2013
At CERN
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27 September, 2013

Explore CERN with Google Street View

CERN and Google have joined forces to create panoramic virtual tours of the CERN site

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Accelerators
26 September, 2013
Accelerators
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26 September, 2013

Crowd-sourced computing platform reaches one trillion events

The crowd-sourced physics simulator Test4Theory has reached one trillion simulations of particle collisions in just two years

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Computing
20 September, 2013
Computing
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20 September, 2013

Big data, big opportunities — for science and for enterprise

Ahead of this month’s inaugural ISC Big Data conference in Germany, International Science Grid This Week speaks to CERN openlab’s Sverre Jarp

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Computing
20 September, 2013

Dream team of web developers to recreate line-mode browser

Twelve talented web developers have travelled to CERN from all over the world to recreate a piece of web history: the line-mode browser

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Computing
19 September, 2013
Computing
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19 September, 2013

Watch engineers install a muon detector on CMS

Engineers have repaired and reinstalled a part of the CMS detector crucial for identifying muons. Watch them at work

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Experiments
18 September, 2013
Experiments
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18 September, 2013

Win tickets for two concerts at CERN

Apply for a lottery for tickets to see the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Alan Parsons Live Project live at CERN

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At CERN
16 September, 2013
At CERN
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16 September, 2013

Pranksters and cartoon robots take physics to the tweens

Two media projects, developed with funds from CERN and EUROVISION, are taking fundamental physics to 8-12 year olds. Watch the trailers

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At CERN
13 September, 2013