Science lab marks seventy-second anniversary of its founding convention

Seventy-two years ago today, the founding convention of CERN officially entered into force. The milestone marks over seven decades of operations for the storied science laboratory. The institution is home to massive scientific tools, including the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS detector. ATLAS stands as the largest particle collider on the collider, measuring forty-six meters in length, twenty-five meters in height, and twenty-five meters in width. The giant machine weighs approximately seven thousand tonnes.

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Major research laboratories like CERN bring together thousands of scientists from around the world to study fundamental physics. These institutions operate massive machines to test theories about the building blocks of matter and the universe. Such facilities often take decades to plan, build, and maintain as international scientific hubs.