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9 Laboratories That Created The Modern World

Sure Frankenstein’s lab had that green guy and Dr. Weird’s housed a gigantic mecha-bunny but these labs! These lairs of some of sciences greatest minds have given the world electricity, television, the Internet, and LSD!

April 26, 2011
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What’s Really Going On With The Latest Higgs Boson Rumour?

Rumours are again swirling that the Higgs boson, the missing subatomic particle of the Standard Model, has been found at last. But where did these reports come from, and should we believe them? Let’s take a look at the evidence.

November 18, 2010
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Antimatter Trapped For The First Time

Get ready for that warp drive spaceship, because we are now one step closer to it. After creating antihydrogen in their antiproton decelerator, scientists at CERN have been able to trap antimatter for the first time in history.

October 8, 2010

Artist Unearths Large Hadron Collider With Psychedelic Mural

ATLAS, the incredibly complex particle detector that processes the experiments running inside the even more incredibly complex Large Hadron Collider, is not open to visitors. But CERN has a compromise: an enormous, gorgeous mural of ATLAS’ guts.

July 10, 2010
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This Is Where The Web Was Born

Tim Berners-Lee cites this spot (specifically that plaque on the wall!) at CERN to be the birthplace of the world wide web. Note the series of tubes on the ceiling. Those played a critical role, I understand. [davidgalbraith]

March 31, 2010
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The Faces Behind The Large Hadron Collider

The morning of March 30, 2010 things were getting tense at CERN. Will a chunk of bread or a typo cause embarrassment? Will the world end? Or will everything be a success with the Large Hadron Collider?

March 30, 2010
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LHC A Success – And We’re Still Alive! (We Think)

The scientists at CERN momentarily forgot how to speak like, well, scientists, and got a little carried away on Twitter after they successfully saw particle collisions for the first time. [CERN]

November 24, 2009
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LHC First Particle Beams Collision Doesn’t End The World

Hey, we are alive! At the end we didn’t need any escape pods: The Large Hadron Collider has smashed two particle beams together for the first time. However, the unknown is still ahead of us as they ramp things up:

November 21, 2009
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OK, Now I’m Nervous About The Large Hadron Collider

I used to think that nothing would happen with the Large Hadron Collider. I even made fun of the nutters saying it’s going to destroy the world. After reading CERN Director for Accelerators’s latest statement, I’m not so sure:

November 12, 2009

This Is Simply The Coolest Pop-Up Book Ever

It may not overheat in the presence of bread, but this pop-up book has the most accurate paper Large Hadron Collider ever. Figures that a book would make ending of the world by firing that bad boy up look fun.

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