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CERN Tweetup reaches over one million followers

Five winners of a competition announced on Twitter reached the vast audience during CERN's first ever Tweetup

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At CERN
03 August, 2012

Timepix detectors track cosmic radiation on the ISS

On 31 July, an unmanned Russian Progress spacecraft was launched from Kazakhstan, carrying five Timepix detectors to the ISS

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Knowledge sharing
02 August, 2012
Knowledge sharing
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02 August, 2012

ATLAS and CMS submit Higgs-search papers

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations today submitted papers to the journal Physics Letters B outlining the latest on their searches for the Higgs boson

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Experiments
01 August, 2012
Experiments
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01 August, 2012

AMS experiment marks one year in space

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the ISS has been taking data for a year. The shuttle crew that took it to space visited CERN to mark the occasion

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At CERN
25 July, 2012
At CERN
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25 July, 2012

Tweetup at CERN today: #CERNtweetup

Tweetup to coincide with the visit of Nasa astronauts to the AMS experiment at CERN

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Experiments
25 July, 2012
Experiments
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25 July, 2012

Proposal to use CERN accelerator for biomedical research

Discussions under way for possible re-use of LEIR accelerator

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Accelerators
23 July, 2012

Large Hadron Collider run to be extended by seven weeks

LHC will run for a further seven weeks in a bid to maximize data for physics following the latest Higgs-search update

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Accelerators
21 July, 2012

Higgs within reach

Our understanding of the universe is about to change…

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Physics
04 July, 2012
Physics
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04 July, 2012

Collaboration to build new antiproton decelerator

The Extra Low Energy Antiproton ring (ELENA) will further slow antiprotons from the Antiproton Decelerator, to make them easier to trap

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Physics
28 June, 2012

LHC experiments prepare for summer conferences

CERN physicists are frantically analysing data in the run-up to ICHEP 2012, this year's major particle-physics conference in Melbourne, Australia

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Accelerators
27 June, 2012