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Abha Eli Phoboo is a science communicator for the ATLAS collaboration. She also writes for TEDxCERN.
The ATLAS and CMS experiments, together with the IceCube Experiment in the South Pole, hosted a virtual visit for high-school students
Teachers from the Middle East are working together at CERN’s High School Teachers Training Programme to produce lessons about SESAME
CERN physicists joined composers and musicians to rock out with the universe at the Montreux jazz festival this week
In preparation for the LHC's next run, physicists are calibrating the ATLAS experiment - with high-energy rays from outer space
A new subdetector has been added to the very heart of ATLAS, closest to the beam pipe where particle collisions will occur
Students at the Challenge Based Innovation course presented prototypes of platforms to simplify meetings and enhance learning in autistic children
The ATLAS Thesis Awards recognize young postdoctoral candidates who have contributed to the ATLAS experiment with an excellent PhD thesis
The first recipients of the ATLAS PhD Grant – a fund set up with award money from the Fundamental Physics Prize – begin their scholarships this year
Radiofrequency cavities built for the Large Electron Positron Collider are finding use on the SESAME project
ATLAS is improving its trigger system to be able to select even more collision events with potentially interesting physics
The ATLAS experiment at CERN has found evidence for the Higgs boson decaying to two tau particles