WEEK IN PHOTOS: Penguins in a Box, Shipwreck, More

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Berlin, October 14, 2008--Electrostatic energy sparks a smile on the face of Germany's education minister, Annette Schavan, at the "World Machine" exhibition detailing the Large Hadron Collider in a subway station.

Housed in a 17-mile-long (27-kilometer-long) circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border, the collider is the world's largest atom smasher.

It is designed to probe the origins of the universe by producing countless collisions that recreate conditions present just after the big bang.

(Story and video: "Large Hadron Collider 'Actually Worked'" [September 10, 2008].)
—Photograph by Sean Gallup/Getty Images
 

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