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Scientists at CERN are making one of the most explosive substances known to humans. Unravelling its secrets could help us understand how the Universe exists.

CERN said the plans were being drawn up in case it is warned it needs to use less energy

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Physicists at Cern have discovered a plethora of new exotic particles being created in the collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider over the past few years. So many have been found in fact, that our collaboration (LHCb), which has discovered 59 out of 66 recent particles, has come up…

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