Cruise through a collider

VIRTUAL VISIT  New 360-degree photo panoramas make it possible to explore, online, the brightly painted particle detectors such as the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment (shown) and other instruments at the world's largest particle accelerator.

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The doors to CERN, the particle physics lab near Geneva where the Higgs boson was discovered last year, are closed to most folks.