Read article 'Short but intense…'
After a short, but intense, “intermezzo” as editor of the CERN Courier, I’m stepping down as I head off to new challenges. I would like to thank the CERN Courier Advisory Board and the m...
Read article 'Data preservation is a journey'
As an organisation with more than 60 years of history, CERN has created large volumes of “data” of many different types. This involves not only scientific data – by far the large...
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Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks: From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN. With a Tribute to Rolf HagedornBy Johann Rafelski (ed.)SpringerAlso available at the CERN...
Read article 'The Tevatron legacy: a luminosity story'
Résumé Une histoire de luminosité Les résultats du programme du Tevatron ont largement dépassé les objectifs de physique prévus initialement, en raison notamment de ...
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Images of Time: Mind, Science, RealityBy George JaroszkiewiczOxford University Press For ages, sundials have been used to measure time, with typical accuracies in the order of a few minutes. After Gal...
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Open access ebooks Open access (OA) publishing is proving to be a very successful publishing model in the scholarly scientific field: today, more than 10,000 journals are accessible in OA, according t...
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Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology (2nd edition)By M Bucchi and B Trench (eds)Routledge With scientists increasingly asked to engage the public and society-at-large w...
Read article 'Imaging science: physics laboratories under the spotlight'
“Lighting the way for dark-matter detection and future particle-physics research.” An electric mining drill deep within the Stawell Gold Mine (SUPL). Awarded 1st people’s choice. “...
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The Large Hadron Collider: Harvest of Run 1By Thomas Schörner-Sadenius (ed.)Springer On the verge of obtaining new results from the first year of Run 2 of the LHC, a book summarising the res...
Read article 'Our Courier'
The CERN Courier is not exclusively CERN’s. Its subtitle “International Journal of High-Energy Physics” stands as a friendly warning to all those readers who might otherwise think it is ...
