LHC smashes energy record

(ANSA) - Rome, May 21 - The CERN particle physics lab's Large Hadron Collider set a new record Wednesday night when it smashed atoms with vastly more energy than ever before.
    Two opposing beams of protons were steered into each other at the four collision points spaced around the LHC's tunnel. The energy of the collisions was 13 trillion electronvolts - dwarfing the eight trillion reached during the LHC's first run, which ended in early 2013.