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Global financial crisis, 2008

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The global financial crisis of September–October 2008 is a major ongoing financial crisis, the worst of its kind since the Great Depression. It became prominantly visible in mid-September, 2008 with the failure, merger or conservatorship of several large United States-based financial firms. The underlying causes leading to the crisis had been reported in business journals for many months before September, with commentary about the financial stability of leading U.S. investment banks, insurance firms and mortgage banks.

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Sep 10

Particle accelerators and the Large Hadron Collider

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Construction of LHC at CERN

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CERN operates a network of six accelerators and a decelerator. Each machine in the chain increases the energy of particle beams before delivering them to experiments or to the next more powerful accelerator. Currently active machines are:

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