CERN shuts down Large Hadron Collider until 2030, upgrading the atom smasher to its most powerful form yet

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful atom smasher, has entered a planned four-year shutdown that will upgrade it to its most capable form yet.The particle accelerator was switched off Monday (June 29) and is scheduled to come back online in 2030 as the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HiLumi LHC), with improvements that will allow it to smash together roughly 10 times more particles than its original design. That data could help spark new discoveries in fundamental physics and shed light on the nature of dark matter, antimatter and the early universe.”This is a very important…

Meta loses bid to toss lawsuit alleging Facebook and Instagram addict children

A federal judge rejected Meta Platforms’ bid to dismiss a lawsuit by 29 state attorneys general accusing it of designing Facebook and Instagram to addict children and knowingly concealing the harm from the public. In a decision late on Monday night, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, Calif., denied Meta’s motion to…

LeBron James leaving Lakers in free agency

LeBron James’ time in Tinseltown has come to an end. James has informed the Lakers that he will finish out his NBA career elsewhere and that the Lakers are free to move on without him. LeBron James is leaving the Los Angeles Lakers and will be an unrestricted free agent…

Supreme Court upholds state bans on trans athletes in girls’ sports

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court upheld state-level bans on transgender competitors playing girls’ sports in Idaho and West Virginia in a landmark decision with major implications for more than half the country where similar policies are in place. In a 6-3 opinion, in which the liberal justices concurred and dissented in part, the…

Scientists figured out how to shrink huge ultrafast lasers so they fit on a tiny chip ‪‪—‬ the ‘holy grail’ of the field

A breakthrough in photonic chips could make large, costly, ultrafast lasers dramatically smaller, leading to portable and affordable imaging, diagnostic and information-processing devices, researchers say.By using a decades-old overlooked laser architecture, scientists managed to fit an ultrafast laser onto a tiny photonic chip — a chip that uses light, rather…

Rangers promote Tanner Glass to director of player development

The Rangers filled their director of player development role internally. Tanner Glass, who had been the assistant director of player development since 2019, was promoted to the primary role after Jed Ortmeyer — who had held that position since 2017 — left to pursue other opportunities, The Post’s Mollie Walker…

Bruins’ Nikita Zadorov played through playoff series with torn MCL

Bruins star Nikita Zadorov made a startling revelation on Friday: he played much of his team’s first-round series with a torn MCL. Zadorov, 31, disclosed the injury to reporters following Boston’s 4-1 Game 6 loss to Buffalo, which gave the Sabres a 4-2 series win. “I tore my MCL [in]…

Golden Tempo wins 2026 Kentucky Derby in wild comeback

The 152nd Kentucky Derby is in the books, and Golden Tempo crossed the finish line first, holding off Renegade and Ocelli, who finished second and third, respectively. Golden Tempo, who pulled away at the end had odds of 25-1 at post time. He is trained by Cherie Devaux and had…

Cody Bellinger, Trent Grisham power Yankees to another win over Orioles

The Yankees entered this winter with two high-ceiling, no-longer-that-young outfield prospects in Jasson Domínguez and Spencer Jones who probably deserved and deserve a shot at extended playing time.  And yet Brian Cashman & Co. filled up the major league outfield by extending a qualifying offer to Trent Grisham, who accepted,…

Jaxson Dart, girlfriend Marissa Ayers stun at 2026 Kentucky Derby

There is no cutting corners for Kentucky Derby weekend, and Jaxson Dart and Marissa Ayers didn’t disappoint. The Giants quarterback sported a white Dolce & Gabbana suit with black pinstripes with a matching Bellissimo hat, as he described on the red carpet at Churchill Downs in Louisville on Saturday. He…

A surprising sunscreen booster may be hiding at your favorite bar

Something exciting is brewing in the skincare world. A new study suggests that a byproduct of beer production could make sunscreens more effective at blocking harmful ultraviolet B rays, which are responsible for sunburns. The finding could be significant, as studies have shown that many products on store shelves don’t…

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