Major repairs on Big Bang machine completed

Engineers have finished the major work of fixing the broken "Big Bang" machine, the largest scientific instrument ever built.

Engineers have finished the major work of fixing the broken "Big Bang" machine, the largest scientific instrument ever built.

The last of 53 replacement magnets for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been lowered into the 16-mile tunnel straddling the Swiss-French border which houses the machine.

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