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Science Destinations in EuropeContinuing our series on science-oriented Travel Destinations, here are some science hotspots in Europe. I'm Jim Metzner and this is the Pulse of the Planet.Frommer:One of the most exciting destinations for real science nerds is the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva Switzerland. It's commonly known as CERN, and this is the world's largest particle physics laboratory.Pauline Frommer is Editorial Director for the Frommer guidebooks and Frommers.com. Frommer: This is where the Hadron collider lives. and the people who have worked in this laboratory over the decades have won something like seven or eight Nobel Prize prizes in physics because of the discoveries they're making at this incredible facility.Now you have to apply well in advance. You can't just go to Geneva. They have tours with the scientists a couple of days a month for a select group of people who apply in advance. Other destinations? In a suburb of London is a place called Down House, and that is where Darwin lived and wrote his book on the origin of the species. And they kept the garden as it was when Darwin was there, and you go to the wall and he has exotic lichen all over the walls that he collected on his travels. And one patch of the garden is totally dedicated to weeds, because he wanted to see which weeds would dominate the others. And he used that in his thinking of of how species originate and change and dominate other species.We'll hear more about science destinations in future programs. I'm Jim Metzner and this is the Pulse of the Planet.