Large Hadron Collider

The Mysterious Life of Comets

Joseph Veverka will discuss how our understanding of these so-called leftovers from the origins of the solar system have changed over time. Did comets deliver most of the water and the building blocks of life to our infant planet?

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60 Minutes in Space

Go "behind the stories" in space science using the best images and animation available to help understand new developments. Seating is limited to first come, first served.

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May 14, 2010
The Large Hadron Collider is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva that spans the border between Switzerland and France. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles -- the building blocks of the universe. In this Science Bite, Museum scientist KaChun Yu explains this brave new world of physics.