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  • Hadron Collider computing grid launched

    One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs a year, was officially launched on Friday in Europe.

  • Hadron Collider gets hacked

    Hackers have reportedly broken into a computer system at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, targeting a system that was "one step away" from a control computer, but otherwise appear to have done no major damage.

  • Photos: Synchrotron Australia's particle accelerator

    How many Australian scientists does it take to make the countries' biggest light bulb? Our photo gallery takes you inside the Synchrotron, Australia's only particle accelerator that creates high-intensity light for scientific imaging.

  • Using high-energy physics to preserve old records

    The aged wax cylinder in Carl Haber's hands was cracked and spotted with greenish mold, too fragile now to be played with a record needle, as it was intended.

  • First phase of supercollider grid goes live

    CERN has launched the first phase of a grid computing project designed to process data from the Large Hadron Collider, which will search for the origins of the universe.

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