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CERN is the European laboratory for particle physics, home to the #LHC. — All media © CERN, human-generated unless otherwise stated. French: @CERN_FR
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[Press Update] Ion recycling to illuminate the heaviest elements Find out more: https://t.co/SizG902HqW
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🌌 31 octobre, on célèbre le #DarkMatterDay ! Une journée pour plonger dans les mystères de la matière noire, cette matière invisible qui compose près de 27 % de l’Univers. 🔗 En savoir plus : https://t.co/FQ6ioo3PLf
@DarkMatterDay @particlenews @symmetrymagazine
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The Rise of Home Education The failures of public education have led to a growing movement of home-centered education. Joining the Moms for America Podcast is one of the pioneers of classical Christian homeschooling, Leigh Bortins. Leigh, an aerospace engineer who homeschooled
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[Press Update] Ireland becomes an Associate Member State of CERN Find out more: https://t.co/XRIAek3O19
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Curiosity drives discovery! 🌌 The ATLAS Experiment at @CERN brings together thousands of scientists and engineers from around the world to explore the building blocks of the Universe. 🎥 Watch our new intro video, now available in 6 languages on YouTube https://t.co/RZrMRQoQDP
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Congrats to Congqiao Li, Christina Wenlu Wang, & Ho Fung Tsoi for rising above a pool of 19 nominees with their exceptional research and winning the 2024 CMS PhD Thesis Award! 🏆 🔗Find out more, including a video of the winners answering questions: https://t.co/d4xYPtLk7k
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CERN congratulates the winners of the 2025 @NobelPrize in #Physics 👏 John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis were awarded the #NobelPrize for their experiments with an electrical circuit, in which they demonstrated both quantum mechanical tunnelling and quantised
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
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🤩We’re about to go LIVE from the CMS experimental site at CERN! Click here to join the tour and ask any questions you’d like our scientists to answer: 👉 https://t.co/8NTpav52cC
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#ICYMI here’s a recap of #OpenScience Fair 2025 💫 This #PhotoOfTheWeek features the highlights of last week’s event, which took place at #CERNScienceGateway. From 15 to 17 September, innovators, researchers, and policy leaders came together to explore how diverse forms of
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[Press Update] Shape-shifting collisions probe secrets of early Universe Find out more: https://t.co/LbzDX3qPbi
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The autumn issue of #AcceleratingNews is out 🍂 In this issue, we take a look at the successful completion of the #LHC Injectors Upgrade, highlight the benefits for industry of collaborating with large-scale research projects, and deep dive into how the Particle Accelerator
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[Press Update] CERN launches Generation Higgs, its new cultural season, with Cédric Klapisch on 25 September Find out more: https://t.co/nBfbr53PWH
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Attention! One week left until registration closes for #OSFair2025 From 15 to 17 Sept, @CERN will host a global gathering of innovators, researchers, & policy leaders to co-create the future of #OpenScience. 👉Secure your spot today: https://t.co/fFivDscWBY
#OpenAIRE #CERN
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[Press Update] CERN and Pro Helvetia extend “Connect” collaboration and launch Connect Argentina residency Find out more: https://t.co/o9jD8ZAEnj
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#ThrowbackThurdsday to June 1980 🏃♂️ That summer, Leon Van Hove (CERN’s Director General at that time) kicked off the traditional annual relay race, a tradition that still takes place to this day #AtCERN. Twice Director of the Theory Division, Leon Van Hove oversaw the official
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Summer students #AtCERN 💻 Today’s #PhotoOfTheWeek features a lecture given by CERN’s Director General Fabiola Gianotti to the 2025 class of summer students in the audience. The CERN Summer Student Programme offers STEM students pursuing bachelor’s or master’s degrees the
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Here we see the recently-inaugurated control room of the @CMSexperiment, where the physicists carry out the monitoring and supervision of the experiment’s operations around the clock. The interior of this control room is twice as large as the previous one. Located next to the
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#ThrowbackThursday to August 1970 🔙 Here we see the first large units of the magnetic shielding designed for the European hydrogen bubble chamber, arriving #AtCERN from the ‘Forges et Ateliers de la Loire’ (France). The European hydrogen bubble chamber, also known as the Big
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Sun is up 🌞 Today’s #PhotoOfTheWeek features some summer moments #AtCERN. From welcoming summer students to hosting festivals, outdoor workshops, science shows and community events, the summer time at the Laboratory is filled with a vibrant atmosphere. Are you planning to
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Today we feature equipment of the future #HiLumiLHC, the successor to CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which aims to increase the number of particle collisions for further discoveries to be made. Here we see the installation of a so-called “corrector package” in the IT string – a
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