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Iain Thomson

12 September 2008 • 1 min read

50 Cent not worried by competition

The video explains the LHC's functions to a background beat Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project at Cern have recorded a rap song to celebrate the start of their experiments. ...

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