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If you know anything about the Large Hadron Collider, you know that it is huge. Massive. 17 miles of tunnels under…
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Today I found out what happens when you stick your head into a particle accelerator.
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Leave it to a bunch of geniuses to waste a good opportunity. Remember how Samuel Morse famously asked, "What hath God…
The Large Hadron Collider is constantly on the hunt for "new physics" — discoveries that confound and expand our…
The Tevatron shut down yesterday. Before its duties were taken up by the the Large Hadron Collider, it accelerated…
Yesterday, CERN physicists shocked the world with news of a scientific finding that could revolutionize the field of…
How cool is this? Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Easy Bay represent!) have created an…
In the twilight days of the Cold War, the Soviets began building UNK, a proton accelerator in the town of Provtino that…
The work of Vincent Van Gogh may be among the greatest artistic achievements in human history, but barely a century…
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If you've ever had an MRI scan or accelerated a sub-atomic particle to near light speed, then you've experienced the…
The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most complicated machine that was felled by a single faulty solder joint last…
The CERN scientists said the LHC's big malfunction this weekend was the result of a "faulty electrical connection…
In case you were still worried about the LHC bringing on the biblical apocalypse, you can calm down, because it turns…
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