LHC sets brilliant new record

The world's biggest atom smasher has set a new world record for luminosity, a key measure of performance and power, Cern said on Friday.
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Atom smasher opens 'new era' for science

Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher near Geneva on Tuesday started colliding particles at record energy levels.
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When the world ended

December 31 1999, and I couldn't have been further away from a computer ... about half-way up the Mozambican coast.
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'Big Bang' collider repairs to cost up to $29m

Repairing the giant particle collider built to simulate the "Big Bang" could cost up to $29-million.
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What will the Large Hadron Collider do for us?

After all, lots of people know that the world wide web came out of Cern, which is home once again to a particle collider project.
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Damage to atom smasher forces two-month halt

The world's largest atom smasher -- which was launched earlier this month -- has been damaged twice and will be out of commission for two months.
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Scientists send first beam round particle-smasher

Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) started up a huge particle-smashing machine on Wednesday.
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Hawking bets mega-machine won't find 'God's Particle'

Stephen Hawking has bet $100 that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science.
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