Peckish bird briefly downs big atom smasher

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Peckish bird briefly downs big atom smasher

The Large Hadron Collider was shut down on 3 November when an owl dropped bits of a baguette into an outdoor electrical installation, resulting in a short-circuit that triggered failsafe devices that, in turn, shut down part of the cooling system. CERN reports that the bird is unharmed but lost its lunch. There is no word as to what an owl was doing eating a French loaf.