Probing Question: Could the Large Hadron Collider swallow the Earth?

Large Hadron Collider restart delayed till October

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 20, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 36

(AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher will likely be fired up again in October after scientists have carried out tests and put in place further safety measures to prevent a repeat of the faults that sidelined ...


Australian stroke victim walks again - with help of botox

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

An Australian stroke victim paralysed for more than 20 years has walked again thanks to anti-wrinkle drug botox, in a case hailed as extraordinary by his medical team.


A Tibetan herdsman monitors his flock of sheep from a distance outside Tongde

Tibet drought worst in 30 years: Chinese state media

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 20, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

A drought in Tibet has intensified into the region's worst in three decades, leaving thousands of hectares parched and killing more than 13,000 head of cattle, China's state media said Saturday.


Jobs has been recovering well and was expected to return to work on schedule later this month

Apple CEO gets liver transplant: report

Technology / Business

created Jun 20, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, on medical leave since January for treatment of an undisclosed condition, received a liver transplant about two months ago in Tennessee, The Wall Street Journal reported ...


Patches of burnt grass are seen in a tree forest in the Ugandan north-eastern plains

Uganda forests rapidly disappearing: study

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Uganda has lost nearly a third of its forest cover since 1990 due to expanding farmlands, a rapidly growing human population and increased urbanisation, a government report said on Friday.


Redbox's machines take on Netflix's red envelopes

Technology / Business

created Jun 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- With more subscribers than ever flocking to its DVD-by-mail service, Netflix Inc. is one of the few companies to prosper during the worst U.S. recession in 70 years. Yet Netflix CEO Reed Hastings still has something ...


THE INFLUENCE GAME: Excuse me! Lobby wins on burps (AP)

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Excuse me! Lobby wins on burps

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 20, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 4

(AP) -- One contributor to global warming - bigger than coal mines, landfills and sewage treatment plants - is being left out of efforts by the Obama administration and House Democrats to limit greenhouse ...


Calif regulators find pot smoke causes cancer

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Marijuana smoke has joined tobacco smoke and hundreds of other chemicals on a list of substances California regulators say cause cancer.


Emerging $80B deal would help fund Medicare drugs (AP)

Emerging $80B deal would help fund Medicare drugs

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

(AP) -- Medicare beneficiaries would receive better drug coverage and a portion of President Barack Obama's health care legislation would be paid for under an emerging agreement involving the pharmaceutical ...


Nortel to sell itself off in pieces

Technology / Business

created Jun 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Nortel Networks, once a technology giant, has decided to sell itself off in pieces rather than attempt to emerge from bankruptcy as a restructured company.


Chinese youths at a Internet cafe in Beijing

Google vows to fight porn in China after govt rebuke

Technology / Internet

created Jun 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Internet giant Google promised to work harder to eliminate pornography from its Chinese Web pages as state media reported authorities had shut down some of its search services.


New net timer could save sea turtles from drowning

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Fishery managers trying to protect rare sea turtles from dying in fishing nets have tapped a Cape Cod company to build a device they think can help balance turtle protection with profitable fishing.



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