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Confirmed: CERN Is Just A Huge Half-Life Level
9:00AM John Herrman | Plenty of people have given CERN and Half-Life’s Black Mesa research facility the This Thing Looks Like That Thing treatment, but this tour of the facility’s deepest bowels is just too much. Steam geysers? Endless corridors? Rusty valves? Slime growths? More »
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Large Hadron Collider Scientist Arrested For Al Qaeda Links
6:12AM Jesus Diaz | Police have arrested a 32-year-old physicist at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, linking him to an Al Qaeda terrorist group. Just fraking great. As if we didn’t have enough with the morons predicting Apocalypse and the thing failing on its own. More »
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Large Hadron Collider “Light” Will Half-End World In November
12:30AM Jack Loftus | While we doubt the loud sex is the real reason for CERN’s LHC-related woes, we are certain of one thing this morning: The “world-ending” LHC (citation: ill-informed ignoramuses) LHC will restart at half-strength in November. More »
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The Real Reason The Large Hadron Collider Keeps Getting Delayed
8:20AM John Herrman | As a part-time physics nerd, I get excited enough just reading Brian Greene books, so I can’t even imagine what the mood’s like over at the CERN dorms, where this polite advisory was allegedly posted. More »
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LHC, Science Could ‘Correct Some of Our Opinions’ About Scripture and Faith
1:00AM Jack Loftus | Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, the Vatican City’s governor, while visiting the CERN Large Hadron Collider on Friday: “The Church never fears the truth of science, because we are convinced that all truth comes from God.” More »
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Large Hadron Collider’s Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks
2:40AM John Mahoney | Too good to be true: because his character in Angels and Demons saves the Vatican from being destroyed by antimatter stolen from CERN, Tom Hanks will be flipping the switch to restart the LHC. More »
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Postponed LHC Restart Could Wrestle ‘God Particle’ Discovery From CERN
3:05PM Elaine Chow | Scientists are racing to to discover the Higgs boson particle first. That’s right – CERN isn’t the only one looking, and its Large Hadron Collider might be upstaged by a U.S. accelerator yet. More »
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Clean Your Leftover Time After Using Microwave, Thanks
12:20AM Jesus Diaz | I’ve seen signs in office kitchens asking to clean the microwave oven after using it, but it looks like this one comes from CERN’s canteen and there is a physicist with relativity OCD there. More »
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Photos Show What 10 Megajoules Worth of Damage To the LHC Looks Like
3:15AM John Mahoney | CERN’s photos of the LHC’s multi-million-dollar ouchies aren’t as dramatic as the Earth being swallowed by the Singularity, but they show the results of a single solder joint’s failure on the world’s most complex machine. More »
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