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| 1988 |
| | | British physicist Stephen Hawking explains the cosmos for the general reader in A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes | |
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| 2008 |
| | | The Large Hadron Collider, at Cern in Switzerland, begins accelerating protons round a 17-mile circular tunnel | |
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| 2008 |
| | | The Hadron Collider at Cern has to be halted when a serious fault develops, leading to a predicted six-month delay in the programme | |
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| 2009 November 20 |
| | | CERN restarts the Large Hadron Collider, which has been shut down since a serious failure in Sepember 2008 | |
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| 2010 November 17 |
| | | CERN announces its successful production and brief capture of atoms of antihydrogen, the first observed example of antimatter | |
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| 2011 November 26 |
| | | NASA launches a rocket carrying the roving science laboratory Curiosity, which is programmed to land on Mars on 6 August 2012 | |
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| 2012 July 4 |
| | | CERN announces the discovery of a new particle, possibly the much anticipated Higgs boson, in the Large Hadron Collider | |
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