In CERN news, the Large Hadron Collider has collided its last high energy proton proton beams for physics analysis for 2024. It has been a fantastic year for the Large Hadron Collider, with over 11% more data delivered to the CMS and ATLAS collaborations than had been predicted. But it's not time to put our feet up just yet. After some machine development studies and proton calibration runs, we'll be moving on to colliding heavy ions, which are bigger and heavier than protons, and allow us to re

On the 2nd of July 2013, a Russian Proton-M rocket crashed seconds after launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Carrying three GLONASS navigation satellites, the rocket veered off course due to upside-down installed angular velocity sensors. It exploded in a massive fireball, scattering debris over a 500-meter radius. The failure, caused by manufacturing errors, cost $200 million and halted Proton launches for months. No casualties were reported, but toxic hydrazine fuel prompted evacuat