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Fixing an electrical failure that shut down the Large Hadron Collider in September is likely to take longer than initial estimates, according to a spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by the French acronym CERN. Repair work to the world's biggest particle collider ma
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On the outskirts of creation, unknown, unseen "structures" are tugging on our universe like cosmic magnets, a controversial new study says. Everything in the known universe is said to be racing toward the massive clumps of matter at more than 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) an hour—a mov
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Have you ever had a good look at the source code for Digg.com?
Perhaps you don't even know what the source code for a website is; in that case you may not be interested in this. But for the rest of you, I have found something that is quite strange and there appears to be a comical physicist worki
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You can find six new online sources of info about hot topics in modern physics at the 'What We Research' outreach page of Perimeter Institute. The info includes text, graphics and online presentations dealing with Cosmology, Superstring Theory, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Foundations, Quantum Inform
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Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking will next year retire as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Isaac Newton, the university said on Thursday. A spokesman said it was policy for the title holder to retire at 67. Hawking, who has held the position since 197
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[Lifestyle] —
If there is a scientist who could teach us about creativity, it must be Richard Feynman. He was a Nobel Laureate who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. But aside from just a scientist, he was also a very creative person. He often found ideas in unusual ways. The idea which earned him the Nobel
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Two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday. American Yoichiro Nambu, 87, of the University of Chicago, won half of the prize for the discovery of a
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Yesterday CERN launched the largest computing grid in the world, which is destined to analyze the data coming from world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. The computing grid consists of more than 140 computer centers from around the world working together to handle the exp
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The world's largest particle collider malfunctioned within hours of its launch to great fanfare, but its operator didn't report the problem for a week. In a statement Thursday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research reported for the first time that a 30-ton transformer that cools part of
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Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang. The beam completed its first circuit of the underground tunnel at just before 0930 BST. "There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam complete
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The largest particle accelerator in the world, which will feel its first full proton beams tomorrow, just oozes numerical hyperbole.
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Asked if he would be able to choose whether the LHC or the space programme is more important in advancing our knowledge of the universe, Professor Hawking says that would be like "asking which of my children I would choose to sacrifice". "Both the LHC, and the space program, are vital if the hum
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The eyes of the world are on Geneva, where scientists are expected to throw the switch this week on what may be the biggest experiment ever conducted. It's certainly the most expensive. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, has spent roughly $8 billion digging a 27-kilometer tun
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Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference - Assuming the earth is spherical, its circumference spans 360 degrees. So if the two cities are seven degrees apart, that would constitute seven-360ths of the full circle -- about one-fiftieth. Estimating from travel time that the towns were
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[Offbeat] —
About 230 years ago, molten lead that rained from the sky—historically something to avoid at all costs—became a clever new way to manufacture an important commodity: shotgun ammo. Precisely round pellets fly straighter, but casting each in its own 1/8-inch mold isn’t exactly mass production. In zer
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