Education and outreach Archives – Page 6 of 13

CERN on the road

The project will integrate the laboratory better into the local urban landscape.

Birth of the high-energy network

The new community, united by a shared pride in having contributed to CERN’s scientific endeavours, will provide an opportunity for alumni to maintain links with the Organization.

Reaching out in the era of big science

The International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) is making a concerted effort to popularise particle physics.

The usefulness of ‘useless’ knowledge

It is practically impossible to find a piece of technology that cannot be traced back to the work of scientists motivated purely by a desire to understand the world.

Beamline competition calls all schools

CERN has announced the 4th edition of its Beamline for Schools Competition.

Open access 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 to the Directory of Open ...

The CERN effect

"Scientific culture and societal impacts advancing hand-in-hand through cutting-edge research: it is this that makes CERN worthy of the support it receives from governments worldwide."

Helping CERN to benefit society

I first came to CERN as a student in the mid 1980s, and spent an entrancing summer learning the extent of my lack of knowledge in the field of physics (considerable!) and meeting fellow students from ...