2011 marks 50th anniversary of discovery of atomic nuclei . in 2009 Motherboard toured the European Organization for Nuclear Research , or EU . But funding for the project was cut in the early 1990s , and today the giant tunnels built for the project lie fallow . It is home to the Large Scale Collider , used to study smallest known particles .
2011 marks 50th anniversary of discovery of atomic nuclei . in 2009 Motherboard toured the European Organization for Nuclear Research , or EU . It is home to the Large Scale Collider , used to study smallest known particles .