CERN
About CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, a western suburb of Geneva, on the France–Switzerland border. It comprises 25 member states. Israel, admitted in 2013, is the only full member geographically out of Europe. CERN is an official United Nations General Assembly observer.
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A bird dropped a piece of baguette into an experiment at CERN, and some physicists at the time joked it might be a time-travelling bird sent from the future to sabotage it.
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CERN's Large Hadron Collider contains one of the biggest vacuums in the whole world.
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