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Forty years since the first PET image at CERN

Marilena Streit-Bianchi reminisces about her role in the first PET (positron-emission tomography) image taken at CERN

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Knowledge sharing
21 December, 2017
Knowledge sharing
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21 December, 2017

CMS releases more than one petabyte of open data

This release includes datasets that were used to discover the Higgs boson

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Experiments
20 December, 2017
Experiments
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20 December, 2017

LHC experiments highlight 2017 results

On 15 December, the LHC experiments ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb reviewed their recent experimental results

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Experiments
19 December, 2017
Experiments
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19 December, 2017

A new compact accelerator for cultural heritage

CERN and INFN develop a transportable accelerator to help preserve cultural heritage

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Knowledge sharing
19 December, 2017
Knowledge sharing
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19 December, 2017

Arts at CERN’s Collide International award now open

Arts at CERN has announced a new edition of the Collide International award, in partnership with the UK’s leading media arts centre, FACT

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At CERN
18 December, 2017

25 years of Large Hadron Collider experimental programme

CERN celebrates 25 years since the beginning of the LHC experimental programme

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At CERN
15 December, 2017

Breaking data records bit by bit

In October 2017 the CERN data centre broke its own record for data storage when it collected 12.3 petabytes of data over a single month

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Computing
14 December, 2017
Computing
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14 December, 2017

Explore CERN in the world of Minecraft

UK school groups have recreated the ATLAS detector in the gaming platform Minecraft

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Experiments
13 December, 2017
Experiments
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13 December, 2017

New CERN facility can help medical research into cancer

Today, the new CERN-MEDICIS facility has produced radioisotopes for medical research for the first time. MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) aims to provide a wide range of radioisotopes, some of which can be produced only at CERN.

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At CERN
12 December, 2017
At CERN
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12 December, 2017

Crab cavities: colliding protons head-on

The crab cavities, a new technology to brighten up the future, will play an important role in the High-Luminosity LHC

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Accelerators
08 December, 2017
Accelerators
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08 December, 2017