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Looking for the "God Particle"

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) went online on September 10th at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), based in Geneva. Scientists are smashing atoms together in search of the elusive "God Particle", aka the Higgs boson.

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