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  How you can help the LHC and 12 other ways ...

• Big Bang machine makes history

  By Sharon Gaudin | 31 March, 2010 05:35

  Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider succeeded today in smashing two particle beams into each other at an energy level three and a half times greater than ever achieved before.

• Large Hadron Collider smashes another speed record

  By Sharon Gaudin | 20 March, 2010 06:41

  The world's largest atom smasher has broken yet another record.

• Scientists start analyzing Large Hadron Collider data

  By Sharon Gaudin | 13 January, 2010 07:59

  After billions of dollars were spent to build, start, shut down and then fix and re-start the Large Hadron Collider, the system has finally produced enough data for some long-awaited scientific analysis.

• Server virtualization, cloud software come to CERN

  By Jon Brodkin | 18 December, 2009 04:03

  CERN, the European particle physics organization that runs the Large Hadron Collider, is embracing server virtualization and cloud computing technology to improve CPU utilization and the delivery of computing resources to scientists around the world.

• After year of trouble, Big Bang machine breaks world record

  By Sharon Gaudin | 01 December, 2009 07:51

  After a year of technical problems, bad publicity and staggered momentum, the Large Hadron Collider has returned to work with a vengeance.

• Big Bang collider restart delayed to beef up safeguards

  By Sharon Gaudin | 11 February, 2009 08:55

  A plan to add more safety features to the Large Hadron Collider will have the world's largest particle collider offline until next fall -- months later than the previously planned springtime relaunch.

• Downed Hadron Collider faces $21M in repairs

  By Sharon Gaudin | 19 November, 2008 07:07

  Fixing problems at the world's largest particle collider won't come cheap.

• Melted wires knock out Hadron collider for two months

  By Sharon Gaudin | 23 September, 2008 08:14

  Just days after a faulty transformer was repaired, an apparent melted electrical connection between two magnets has brought the Large Hadron Collider down for two months.

• Ways to share spare CPU cycles

  By Ian Paul | 16 August, 2010 03:15

  A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worthy cause.

• How you can help the LHC and 12 other ways to donate your PC's spare processing power

  By Bob Brown | 25 November, 2009 12:03

  Contribute to projects including the LHC, climate forecasting, projects that benefit humanity, target disease cures and more.