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The Large Hadron Collider uses superconducting magnets to smash sub-atomic particles together at enormous energies. CERN hide caption
Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider
A waiter carries beers at the Theresienwiese fair grounds of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, last September. For centuries, a German law has stipulated that beer can only be made from four ingredients. But as Germany embraces craft beer, some believe the law impedes good brewing. Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Germany's Beer Purity Law Is 500 Years Old. Is It Past Its Sell-By Date?
A British Airways plane departs London's Heathrow Airport in 2010. Earlier this month, a British Airways plane was hit by an unidentified object but landed safely at Heathrow. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption
People walk in front of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia on April 12. Turkey has seen tourist numbers plummet following a series of deadly terrorist attacks and a travel ban by Russia. Chris McGrath/Getty Images hide caption
A police officer guards the entrance of the judicial police headquarters in Paris. The French prosecutor's office said Salah Abdeslam, the key suspect in the Paris attacks, was transferred from Belgium to France on Wednesday morning. Michel Euler/AP hide caption
Aissatou Sanogo and her late husband, Souleymane Diaby. Ofeibea Quist-Arcton/NPR hide caption
'Reuters' Reporter Explores Life In Chernobyl 30 Years After Nuclear Disaster
British Inquest Finds Police At Fault For Hillsborough Soccer Stadium Disaster
Dentist Jacobus Van Nierop, pictured in his office in Chateau-Chinon, France, in 2009, has now been banned from practicing. Christophe Masson/AP hide caption
In the 1940s, planes demonstrate DDT spraying at Congressional Airport, outside of Washington, D.C. They were part of a fleet headed to Greece to target mosquito breeding areas. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images hide caption