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Some scientists called it the highlight of their career. On March 30, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider smashed together two proton beams. Each was moving with an energy equivalent to 3.5 trillion electron volts, for a combined 7 trillion--a new world-record energy level. The victory was a long time coming for CERN, Europe's nuclear-research group, which for 15 years has pumped $10 billion into the setback-plagued project. The experiments are expected to reveal much about the nature of the universe, including other dimensions, dark matter and the Higgs boson, the particle that could explain...
Collisions between the two proton beams took place inside gargantuan particle detectors...
...Two accelerator tubes...
...show of solidarity with imprisoned leader Aung San Suu Kyi, members of the National League for Democracy opposition party voted March 29 to sit out Burma's upcoming elections, which are the military-controlled state's first since 1990. Despite winning that contest two decades ago, Suu Kyi was never permitted to rule. She was forbidden to run this time around, a decision that has angered protesters in other nations, including the Philippines (above...
Tennessee and Delaware won the first round of the Race to the Top, a $4.35 billion federal grant program to help states improve their education systems. The two states bested more than 40 other applicants by not only coming up with solid plans to save failing schools but also garnering support for the plans from stakeholders. Tennessee was awarded $500 million; Delaware will receive $100 million. Some $3.4 billion remains to be awarded in another round this August...