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LHC: Delivery of the superconducting cable reaches the half-way point!

Less than half of the superconducting cable needed for the LHC magnet coils now remains to be produced. >>

Right on target!

On 4 March, when the production of superconducting cable was nearing the half-way point, a magic number appeared on the display board on the fourth floor of Building 30: only 1000 dipoles left to be produced! 232 of them had already been delivered to CERN. >>

Golden Jubilee photos: Computers for physics

CERN's first computer, a huge vacuum-tube Ferranti Mercury, was installed in building 2 in 1958. With its 60 microsecond clock cycle, it was a million times slower than today's big computers. >>

A book commemorating CERN's Fiftieth Anniversary

You may have seen posters at CERN promoting a Fiftieth Anniversary book. This is a publication by the Geneva publisher iColor, which issues a book on the local area every year. >>

Rafael Armenteros (1922-2004)

Rafael Armenteros passed away on Friday, 5 March, to the immense sadness of his family and friends. Having begun his scientific career at the University of Manchester, he took part in the observation of... >>

A close-up on laboratory visitors

"Inside the Big Black Box" is a European survey of responses by visitors to five laboratories, including CERN. >>

Iranian and Kazakh representatives visit CERN

On 1st and 4th March respectively, CERN received visits from Asset Issekeshev, Kazakhstan's Vice-Minister of Industry and Trade, and Reza Mansouri, Deputy Minister for Science, Research and Technology of the Islamic Republic of Iran. >>

Discovery Monday: Much ado about nothing: vacuums

Most people seem to agree that an empty space has nothing in it. But what about the physicists? "Wait a minute!", they will tell you, at the Microcosm's next Discovery Monday on 5th April, for they know that even interstellar space is not as empty as it might seem. >>

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