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Anaïs Schaeffer is a reporter for the CERN communications group.
UNOSAT, a United Nations programme hosted at CERN, celebrates 15 years of vital support to humanitarian work
According to TripAdvisor, CERN is Geneva’s top tourist attraction, welcoming almost 110,000 visitors per year
CERN firefighters are working with a research centre in the United States to develop more effective firefighting techniques
Sept pompiers du CERN ont été formés à la prise en charge des patients traumatisés.
The new CERN Publishing Platform supports many services, ranging from editorial management to publication tasks
The SMB department is setting up a monitoring system in certain CERN car parks in order to evaluate their occupancy rates and make them easier to use
A new connection device for vacuum chambers based on Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) rings has been developed for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC)
Experts in medicine, physics, biology and IT come together with the aim of advancing medical techniques
45 students took part in the first Challenge-Based Innovation programme at CERN
Today the ISOLDE installation restarted its physics programme with beams from the Proton Synchrotron Booster
Lison Bernet is the author of the cartoon strip "La BD du LHC", which she draws every month for LHC France
On 2 June the PS Booster had beam for the first time since the beginning of LS1