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The World Wide Web Went Public 20 Years Ago Today

Twenty years ago today, something happened that changed the digital world forever: CERN published a statement that made the technology behind the World Wide Web available to use, by anybody, on a royalty-free basis.


CERN Explains Why The LHC Has To Go Bye-Bye For Two Years

Science fans around the world were saddened when CERN announced its Large Hadron Collider would be shutting down for almost two years worth of repairs and upgrades. As this video explains, that’s OK. When the LHC is powered up again in 2015, it will finally be able to run at full capacity.


New Particle ‘Looking More And More Like A Higgs Boson’

Last July, scientists announced that had discovered what they strongly believed to be the Higgs Boson — but quirks in the data suggested that might not be the case. Now, however, CERN has announced that the observed particle is “looking more and more like a Higgs boson”.


The Large Hadron Collider Just Started On A Two-Year Vacation

The Large Hadron Collider has been pretty busy lately, probably discovering the Higgs Boson, and definitely not destroying the world and whatnot. It’s probably earned a little time off, right? You bet it has, which is why it’s going down for a two-year nap.


LHC Experiments Suggest A Second Higgs Boson. That, Or Someone Forgot To Clean The Accelerator

The Higgs Boson is easily one of the most exciting discoveries made by science in recent times. Hopefully you saved some of that excitement for the second Higgs-like particle, which CERN may or may not have discovered. It really depends on how much they’ve had to drink, apparently.


Particle Soup From The Large Hardron Collider Is The Hottest Thing Mankind Has Ever Made

Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider say they just temporarily created the hottest man-made temperature by colliding two lead ions.


The First Band In The History Of The Web Doesn’t Sound That Bad

1990s girl group Les Horribles Cernettes got its photo published in a HTML page 20 years ago. It was the first photo in the history of the web, which makes them the first music band in the history of the web too. Here’s how the song Collider sounds.


The First Picture Ever Posted On The Internet

Although this photo may look like a prom picture on Facebook that’s been blingee’d, it’s actually the very first photo that was ever uploaded to the web. The history of the picture — in all its random glory and woeful photoshopping — is amazing.


Science Is Awesome: CERN Shows The Higgs Boson Is Real

Well, that went even better than we had dared hope. CERN has confirmed that its experiments so far have demonstrated the existence of the Higgs boson, which in turn suggests that the fundamental model of physics is accurate. Suck on that, science deniers!


Watch The Higgs Boson Update Live

Excited about the upcoming CERN announcement? So are we. Here’s how you can stream the announcement live to your desk.


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