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Students pitch innovative ideas to tackle healthcare issues using particle accelerators in 10-day challenge
Global healthcare issues – from prosthesis pain to severe burns – were targeted by four student teams in the I.FAST project’s third challenge-based initiative
CERN70: Where the Web was born…
Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in 1989 for an information management system called the World Wide Web
Re-engineering radiotherapy
The Smart Technologies to Extend Lives with Linear Accelerators (STELLA) project aims to turn technology developed for particle physics into a novel radiotherapy system suited to the challenging environments of low- and middle-income countries
Cosmic count exceeds expectation
The AMS detector on board the International Space Station has found more cosmic rays made of deuterons than expected
ALICE does the double slit
Using collisions between lead nuclei at the LHC, the ALICE collaboration has measured an interference pattern akin to that of the famous double-slit experiment
NA62 announces its first search for long-lived particles
CERN’s kaon factory pushes the energy frontier to probe uncharted territories of many beyond-the-Standard-Model theories
Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antiprotons
The experiment has developed a new device for cooling antiprotons more efficiently and for considerably increasing the precision of measurements of their fundamental properties
AMBER releases its first results
The experiment’s preliminary results explore the production cross section of the antiproton, which may provide physicists with clues in the search for dark matter
CERN70: Green light for LEP
Herwig Schopper was Director-General of CERN from 1981 to 1988, during which time the Large Electron Positron collider was approved and constructed
ATLAS probes uncharted territory with LHC Run 3 data
The ATLAS collaboration has released its first results from searches for new physics phenomena conducted with data from Run 3 of the LHC