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Next-generation magnets: Small, but powerful

A CERN-Fermilab team has developed a new magnet that will be a valuable asset to the HL-LHC, the next step of for LHC machine

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Engineering
27 August, 2012
Engineering
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27 August, 2012

Cosmic rays discovered 100 years ago

Today marks 100 years since Victor Hess made last of series of balloon flights leading to the discovery of cosmic rays

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Physics
07 August, 2012
Physics
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07 August, 2012

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