(1) Scientists using the world's largest atom smasher have made some of the hottest and densest matter ever achieved on Earth.

(2) The theory is that the world's biggest atom smasher might be able to unleash the Higgs singlet - a particle that could appear before the collision that produced it.

(3) In Switzerland, the world's largest atom smasher hurled two protons into each other at unfathomable speeds.

(4) The European Organization for Nuclear Research said in a statement Monday the atom smasher sent the beams of particles at 1.18 trillion electron volts.

(5) An alien-like squid with "elbows" is caught on video, the world's biggest atom smasher fires up, and unknown "structures" are detected tugging at our universe, and more.

(6) European scientists say they have set a record for high-energy collisions of protons in the world's largest atom smasher, mimicking conditions close to the "Big Bang" that created the universe.

(7) By smashing particles together at close to light speed inside an atom smasher, scientists created a never-before-seen type of matter: an anti-hypertriton.

(8) The results are based on analysis of data collected during the last two weeks of the 2010 LHC run, when the atom smasher switched from colliding hydrogen protons to lead-ions.

(9) Housed in a 17-mile-long (27-kilometer-long) circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border, the collider is the world's largest atom smasher.