The Large Hadron Collider — the world’s biggest, most powerful particle accelerator — is going to be out of commission for a few days. Scientists are blaming a weasel.
No, they’re not using old-timey slang to accuse their fellow researchers of subterfuge. It was an actual weasel.
“The LHC will be down for at least a week because a weasel chewed into a 66kV transformer near LHCb, causing an LHC-wide power cut.
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