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International Linear Collider ready for construction

Today the Linear Collider Collaboration published technical specifications for a proposed 31-kilometre electron-positron collider

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Accelerators
12 June, 2013

Accelerator physicists take the long view at EUCARD'13

In a workshop today at CERN, speakers at the EUCARD'13 meeting discussed challenges for the next 50 years of accelerator physics

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Accelerators
11 June, 2013

Timelapse: Giant magnet flies through ALICE cavern

Watch a quadrupole magnet being lowered into the ALICE cavern for transportation to its required spot on the LHC

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Engineering
07 June, 2013

Training young physicists: a 20 year success story

In 1993, a new series of physics schools began in Europe, organized jointly by CERN and JINR

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At CERN
06 June, 2013

Recreating one of the web’s first browsers

CERN is organizing a two-day coding event to recreate the line-mode browser

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Computing
06 June, 2013

Discovering CERN by bicycle

The residents of CERN’s local area took to their bikes on Sunday 2 June for the inauguration of the Passport to the Big Bang trail

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At CERN
04 June, 2013
At CERN
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04 June, 2013

Thirty years of the Z boson

Thirty years ago this week physicists at CERN announced that they had directly observed the Z boson

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Physics
31 May, 2013
Physics
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31 May, 2013

CERN Council updates European strategy for particle physics

At a special meeting in Brussels today, the CERN Council formally adopted an update to the European strategy for particle physics

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At CERN
30 May, 2013

CERN honoured by Prince of Asturias award

CERN today received the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research shared with theorists Peter Higgs and François Englert

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At CERN
29 May, 2013