CERN

It was shut down for maintenance and upgrades, so it can deliver more data.

It's almost impossible for the organization to release raw datasets, however.

The aim is to learn more about the elusive Higgs Boson particle.

With its Microsoft Alternatives project, or MAlt, CERN hopes to avoid vendor and data lock-in.

And now we're going to have to rebuild it from the ground up.

Double clicking? On a hyperlink?!

The $24-billion project will be 100 kilometers or 62 miles long.

The CERN technology could improve accuracy of medical diagnoses.

The improvements will allow researchers to smash more particles together.

Go full Good Will Hunting with us on this one.

It could help us understand the nature of the universe.

Because how else are you going to monitor 17-miles of underground complex?

They're called "TIM," and they're autonomous.

The Industrial Revolution really screwed up paradise.

There's a good reason why scientists double-check their data.

Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web project on August 6th, 1991.

Quantizer turns particle collisions into sweet sounds.

Raise your hand if one or the other has destroyed one of your prized gadgets.

This is why we can't have nice super colliders.

It's data the physicists collected in 2011.