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Back in the 1980s, Erik Heijne at CERN envisioned that the then fledgling integrated circuit technologies could be employed to create a novel radiation detector. His vision was that all the electronics needed for processing signals from a radiation…

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CERN’s Photo Club, worked closely with the organizing team of the CERN Open Days, to organize a photo competition with “CERN Open Days 2013” as the main theme. The competition lasted from  28 of September to 11 of October and the winners were…

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In his talk, George Zweig, reviewed the events that lead to the discovery, and eventual acceptance, of concrete quarks. You can watch his talk here.  

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In a paper published in the journal Nature, the CLOUD experiment at CERN reports on a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in climate science: how do aerosol particles form in the atmosphere? It is known that all cloud droplets form…

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For science fiction fans antimatter is the high energy fuel that accelerates spaceships faster than the speed of light. In the real world however it has more down to Earth yet extremely useful applications, mainly in the medical field. Positrons are…

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In 2013, CERN/SFT is participating in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the third time, following previous years' great experiences. The group submitted proposals for a variety of projects, covering a wide range of their activities. More…

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Greetings, my name is Nathaniel Chandra Harjanto, a summer student of CERN Summer Studentship Programme 2013 from Indonesia, a country in South East Asia. I am part of Indonesian student group consisted of 3 persons which become the first Indonesian…

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Over the next two weeks, the Theory Unit will host a workshop in "Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Planck" from 17 to 28 June. During the workshop implications of the first cosmology results from Planck will be discussed following the first…