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First three-year LHC running period reaches a conclusion
At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, ending the machine’s first three-year run
Sounds like CERN
Sound artist Bill Fontana recorded his first soundscapes at CERN on a 4-day induction visit preceding his residency
Fat antiatoms, laser beams and matter-antimatter asymmetry
An international team of collaborators are manipulating 'fat' antiatoms at the AEgIS experiment at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator
Long Shutdown 1: Exciting times ahead
As the first and last proton-lead run of 2013 draws to a close, the extensive maintenance programme of the LHC's first long shutdown is about to start
Free the quarks: Calculating the strong force
Forty years ago quarks gained their freedom – at least theoretically – and the modern theory of the strong interaction began to emerge
The next generation of scientific computing
Leaders from academia and industry came together last week at CERN to discuss the IT requirements for the next generation of research infrastructures
CERN and Oracle celebrate 30 years of collaboration
In addition to providing hardware and software to CERN for three decades, Oracle has now been involved in the CERN openlab project for 10 years
Heavy metal: Refilling the lead source for the LHC
Every two weeks, ion-source physicist Detlef Küchler refills the lead source for the LHC with pure lead 208
Standing on the shoulders of software developers
Ensuring scientific software stays citable and sustainable
AEgIS completes installation
The recently installed AEgIS experiment will examine the effect of gravity on antimatter