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As well as making data from particle physics research public, the CMS experiment has developed additional tools in github to be used in schools
This release includes datasets that were used to discover the Higgs boson
In October 2017 the CERN data centre broke its own record for data storage when it collected 12.3 petabytes of data over a single month
The Technical University of Dortmund (Germany) is the first university to use ATLAS data in a lab course
The ATLAS experiment at CERN released data from 100 trillion proton-proton collisions in the LHC in 2012
CERN conducted its fourth reddit AMA to discuss the recent release of 300 terabytes of data from the CMS collaboration
The CMS collaboration makes 300 TB of high-quality data from the LHC available to the public through the CERN Open Data Portal
People across the globe put their questions to CERN in an "Ask Me Anything" session on reddit, on the topic of "Open Science, Open Data & More"
The release of the Open Data Portal is a significant milestone on the road to Open Science, but there is work ahead
The Open Data Portal makes data from real collision events at the LHC openly available to all
CERN today confirms that the Open Access publishing initiative SCOAP<sup>3</sup> will start on 1 January 2014
The ODIN project, which aims to give scientific datasets persistent identifiers, recently held its first-year conference at CERN