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  • Excess heat from the Large Hadron Collider will soon be redirected to help heat nearby homes
    Energy
    The Large Hadron Collider will soon help heat nearby homes
    CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has made some groundbreaking discoveries for physics, but it’s hard to tell how exactly that benefits the average Joe/Jill. Now CERN has announced that the LHC will soon divert some of the waste heat from the collider to help heat thousands of nearby homes.
  • A PhD student working at CERN has had his LEGO proposal for an LHC LEGO kit pass the 10,000 supporter mark , meaning that it will be considered for possible official production
    Children
    LEGO version of Large Hadron Collider picks up speed
    Ever wanted to build a particle accelerator in your basement? Well if one University of Liverpool PhD student gets his way, you may soon be able to do that – with LEGO.
  • ProtonMail is a new secure email service created by scientists from CERN and MIT
    Computing
    Scientists from CERN and MIT launch encrypted email service
    The privacy of the online data has been a hot topic over the last year. In order to protect against unwanted snooping, a group of scientists has created a new secure email service. ProtonMail provides end-to-end encryption, meaning that even the company itself can't see your messages.
  • The Web was born 25 years ago, on March 12, 1989 (Image: picture man/Wikipedia)
    Computing
    Happy Birthday: The Web turns 25
    On March 12, 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, while working as a contractor at the CERN laboratories in Switzerland, submitted Information Management: A Proposal, which sparked the greatest advance in information technology since Gutenberg invented the printing press.
  • Artist Josef Kristofoletti designed and executed this magnificent mural adorning the ATLAS detector building of the Large Hadron Collider (Photo: J. Kristofoletti)
    Architecture
    ATLAS: At the crossroads of art and science
    The largest single piece of experimental scientific apparatus is CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The LHC's ATLAS detector, one of two that discovered the Higgs boson, has a control building adorned with a magnificent mural. How it happened is a fascinating glimpse at the crossroads of art and science.