On the wake of 10th-anniversary celebrations, the Large Hadron Collider has started its third run, smashing together protons at record-breaking energies of 13.6 TeV.
The world s largest and most powerful particle accelerator was fired up Tuesday for the first time since completing a 3 1\/2-year pause for upgrades, and scientists say the advancements will lead to a trove of new information and insight about the smallest building blocks of the world around us.