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Large Hadron Collider works again
- 10 Hours ago
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By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News The LHC's tunnel runs for 27km under the Franco-Swiss border The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has been re-started after a hiatus of 14 months. Engineers
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CERN atom-smasher restarts after 14 mths
- 6 Hours ago
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GENEVA: Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher on Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago. It took a year of
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'Big Bang Machine' Bursts Back Into Action
- 6 Hours ago
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The machine which could shed light on the Big Bang has been restarted more than a year after it was shut down because of technical faults. Beams of protons circulated in the Large Hadron Collider on Friday
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Stuck Mars Rover Finally Budges, a Little (SPACE.com)
- 110 Minutes ago
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NASA's stuck Mars rover Spirit took a tiny step Thursday, its first progress in months, during the latest attempt to extricate the robot from deep Martian sand. On Thursday, Spirit inched forward slightly
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World's largest particle accelerator restarted
- 6 Hours ago
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GENEVA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The world's most powerful particle accelerator, designed to recreate the Big Bang of the universe, has been restarted after more than a year of repairs, the European Organization
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Botanical Whales
- 8 Hours ago
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OK, OK, a plant canâ??t really look a person in the eye and share its thoughts. But after a strange couple of days, Iâ??m almost ready to commune with vegetable matter. A string of wet, pinkie-tipâ??sized
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Smithsonian Museum Receives Former Hubble Components
- 8 Hours ago
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This May, the space shuttle Atlantis flew the fifth and final repair flight to the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. The changes weren't purely aesthetic. A number of instruments, including the Wide Field
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First proton beam completes loop through LHC
- 8 Hours ago
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23:11 20/11/2009 MOSCOW, November 20 (RIA Novosti) - The first circulating beam of protons successfully made it through the entirety of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on Friday, a source at the European
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DNA from Asian carp found 7 miles from Lake Michigan
- 8 Hours ago
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Sophisticated genetic testing in Chicago area waterways has found evidence of the dreaded Asian carp within seven miles of Lake Michigan, federal and state officials said in a cautious note of concern
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New fossils reveal a crocodile world
- 10 Hours ago
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GET OUT OF THE WAY: A flesh model of the head of BoarCroc discovered in the Sahara by a team led by paleontologist Paul Sereno. Relevant offers Obama turban billboard stirs debate Police officer killed
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Galactic Glare Reveals Birthplace of Cosmic Rays
- 11 Hours ago
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Astrophysics: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee Cosmic rayscharged particles that hurtle through space at nearly the speed of lighthave long baffled scientists. How do they acquire such tremendous velocities? Two
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European Leaders Choose the Path of Least Resistance
- 11 Hours ago
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By Andrew Grice, John Lichfield and Vanessa Mock The Independent Britain last night secured the job of the EU's first 'foreign minister' for Baroness Ashton of Upholland after Belgian Prime Minister Herman
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Harnessing Wave Energy
- 12 Hours ago
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Energy from ocean waves seems like the ultimate in renewable fuel, yet research lags behind studies of solar and wind power. Research now underway is based on ocean buoy generators. As ocean swells hit
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LHC takes notice of torture
- 12 Hours ago
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LAHORE (APP): Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Friday took suo motu notice of torture of girl students by a schoolteacher. The CJ summoned the Executive District Officer (EDO)
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Where In The Universe #80
- 12 Hours ago
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Ready for another Where In The Universe Challenge? Here's #80! Take a look and see if you can name where in the Universe this image is from. Give yourself extra points if you can name the spacecraft responsible
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Kid's Astronomy: Celestial Birds Migrate West?
- 12 Hours ago
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Hello, Cosmic Kids! As the seasons change, not only do the Earthly birds migrate, but so do the celestial ones. In the Northern Hemisphere, it's not unusual to see large flocks of our feathered friends
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Origin of life: Generating RNA molecules in water
- 13 Hours ago
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A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Researchers in Italy have reconstructed one of the earliest
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Beam Circulating in LHC Again!
- 12 Hours ago
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09:37 PST: Like many of my colleagues, Iâ??ve been eagerly awaiting word that the LHC has successfully threaded the proton beam around the whole ring. In recent days they have gotten it half way around
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Corn Genome Sequencing Complete
- 12 Hours ago
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Results of the Maize Genome Sequencing Projectâ?¦the first comprehensive gene map of North American Cornâ?¦ will be made available to the public today by the National Corn Growers Association. Publication
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