Large Hadron Collider ramps up to shed light on dark matter

LHC will run at double its previous energy, smashing protons to open up the subatomic world and look for more varieties of Higgs boson

Researchers on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva are making final preparations to restart the giant underground machine and with it their quest to understand the fundamental laws of nature.

Engineers at Cern, the European particle physics lab, have spent the past two years refurbishing the world's most powerful collider in its 17-mile tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside so it can run at nearly double its previous energy.

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