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Spider silk is five times stronger than steel and figuring out its structure is one research project at the ISIS Centre in the United Kingdom. There, scientists use special equipment to study materials at the atomic level.

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Protons begin circling as Large Hadron Collider switches on

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The Big Bang, take two: physicists gear up to flip the switch on the Large Hadron Collider

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