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People get this very wrong, CERN is extremely underfunded. People really don't understand how expensive running the accelerators is and most of the budget goes to that. Last years …

When experiments are running the sensors generate about 1PB of data per second. They have to do multiple (I think four?) layers of filtering, including hardware level to get to act…

Data and more visualisations here https://citiesmoving.com/visualizations/

Since the 70s our society gradually started putting more interest in producing useless things "for profit" or providing inane services instead of actually improving quality of life…

We should be forever grateful that places like CERN exist, which strive for open science and open source.

While the site you provided is completely off the rails now (thank you for the lesson in content moderation). I see people have been using this comment section to complain about re…

I was a summer student this summer, working right next to that exact building. Unfortunately we did not get to see the tape robot, we did get visits to the experiments though. I ca…