Next 5 Extreme Research Machines You Need to Know

perkonis writes: "The LHC is also getting attention because of its looks. With miles of cables and tunnels and multiple hulking particle detectors, almost any photograph of any part of this accelerator is like a glamour shot of a supervillain's doomsday weapon. But there's room for more than one groundbreaking megamachine in today's scientific pantheon. Around the globe, natural mysteries are under assault from all kinds of colossal devises, from a ship that probes the magma miles below the planet's surface to a neutrino detector designed to detect the first signs of a galactic supernova. These research machines aren't celebrities yet, but they deserve to be."