UK pupils recreate CERN lab and Large Hadron Collider in Minecraft
(World News Science)

Scientists at CERN have teamed up with UK schoolchildren to recreate the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Minecraft, in a bid to teach more youngsters about the famous experiment. Teenagers from four schools used the popular block-building game to construct a replica of the entire laboratory of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. The centrepiece is a working model of the LHC, which physicists are using to answer some of the biggest questions in science. In 2012, scientists on the ATLAS and CMS projects at CERN...