The European Organization for Nuclear Research (French: Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire), known as CERN (see Naming), pronounced /ˈsɜrn/ (French pronunciation: [sɛʀn]), is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco-Swiss border, established in 1954. The organization has twenty European member states, and is currently the workplace of approximately 2,600 full-time employees, as well as some 7,931 scientists and engineers (representing 580 universities and research facilities and 80 nationalities).
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Gran Sasso's Large Volume Detector (LVD) searches for neutrino bursts from supernovae. ENRICO SACCHETTI The drive along Italy's highway A24 from the central Adriatic coast towards Rome begins with a winding climb into the snow-covered Apennine ...
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An article in the New York Times paints a somewhat sad picture regarding the government’s execution of what both left and right agree is a legitimate function: Funding basic science research that has little or no direct market potentia ...
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A couple of years ago I became involved in a grand plan to make sounds out of LHC data. We called this project LHCsound. Recently we have revisited the idea with the aim of listening to real data produced in the proton-proton col ...
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[This is the first in series of articles that will introduce popular Linux distributions features and benefits.] On June 13, 2012, Finland native, Linus Torvalds shall be honored with the 2012 Millennium Technology Award for his work in ...
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Central Academy physics teacher Sara Karbeling spent eight weeks last summer at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) outside of Chicago to study primary particle detectors through FermilabÂs teacher research associate program. This ...
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