European Organization for Nuclear Research, a physics research laboratory; also an archaic verb meaning to discern or perceive
Acronym from French 'Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire'; the verb form from Old English ceornian 'to discern'
CERN is where the World Wide Web was invented - scientists needed a way to share research data, and accidentally gave us cat videos!
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