 Flawless start for world's mightiest particle collider (Update 4) September 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 90 vote(s)
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Particle physicists were jubilant on Wednesday after the long-awaited startup of a mega-machine designed to expose secrets of the cosmos passed its first tests with flying colours. | |
Indian teenage suicide over black hole test: reports September 11, 2008 | User rating: 2.3 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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An Indian teenage girl killed herself because she feared that a massive experiment to re-create the birth of the Universe would herald the end of the world, reports said Thursday. | |
 Immigrant Sun: Our star could be far from where it started in Milky Way September 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed. Some astrophysicists have recently questioned whether that is true, and ... | |
 General Motors looks for a jolt from electric Volt September 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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General Motors Corp. honored its past and put the spotlight on its future Tuesday rolling out the production version of the new electric Volt as celebrated its centennial. | |
 Warming world in range of dangerous consequences September 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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The earth will warm about 2.4° C (4.3° F) above pre-industrial levels even under extremely conservative greenhouse-gas emission scenarios and under the assumption that efforts to clean up particulate pollution ... | |
What energy upgrades would you make for $250? September 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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It's a double whammy: Home energy costs are rising just when most of us can least afford it. | |
 Breakthrough for carbon nanotube materials September 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In collaboration with scientists from the NanoTech Institute of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) – CSIRO has achieved a major breakthrough in the development of a commercially-viable ... | |
Flexi display technology is now October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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Rigid television screens, bulky laptops and still image posters are to be a thing of the past as new research, published today, Thursday, 2 October, in the New Journal of Physics, heralds the beginning of a technological ... | |
 New material could speed development of hydrogen powered vehicles 21 hours ago | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Researchers in Greece report design of a new material that almost meets the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2010 goals for hydrogen storage and could help eliminate a key roadblock to practical hydrogen-powered ... | |
 Hackers 'find black hole in atom smasher computers' September 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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Hackers claim they have broken into the computer system of the Large Hadron Collider, the mega-machine designed to expose secrets of the cosmos, British newspapers reported on Saturday. | |
 Small accidents mean big trouble for supercollider September 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Scientists expect startup glitches in the massive, complex machines they use to smash atoms. But the unique qualities of the world's largest particle collider mean that the meltdown of a small electrical ... | |
 US Army Invests in 'Thought Helmet' Technology for Voiceless Communication September 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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In the future, soldiers may be communicating silently with sophisticated "thought helmets." The devices would harness a person´s brain waves and transmit them as radio waves, where they would be translated ... | |
 In radiation 'ventriloquism,' electromagnetic waves travel backwards September 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 77 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Typically, electromagnetic waves travel away from their sources. For instance, a radar system emits radio waves that travel all the way to a target, such as a car or plane, before being reflected ... | |
 Ulysses spacecraft data indicate Solar System shield lowering September 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Data from the joint ESA/NASA Ulysses mission show that the Sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings have become available. This current state of ... | |
Researchers find animal with ability to survive climate change September 24, 2008 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Queen's researchers have found that the main source of food for many fish - including cod - in the North Atlantic appears to adapt in order to survive climate change. | |
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