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LHC sets new world record

Large Hadron Collider sets new power world record

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- CERN's Large Hadron Collider has today become the world's highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the ...


Tesla Roadster

Tesla Roadster Goes 313 Miles on a Single Charge

Technology / Energy

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tesla is becoming synonymous with high performance electric cars. Indeed, the Tesla car company has been making efforts to create a brand of sports car that runs on electricity, and does so ...


Manthropology: The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male

Modern men are wimps, according to new book

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (40) | comments 40

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new book claims even modern athletes could not run as fast, jump as high, or have been nearly as strong as our predecessors.


100-meter sprint world record could go as low as 9.48 seconds

Biology /

created Nov 28, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

2008 was a great summer for sports' fans. World records tumbled at the Beijing Olympics. Usain Bolt shattered both the 100m and 200m world records, knocking tenths of a second off each. People have been getting faster and ...


Space tech helps to reach long-jump world record

Space tech helps to reach long-jump world record

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5

German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by ...


Physicists estimate how fast Usain Bolt could have run

Physicists estimate how fast Usain Bolt could have run

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (70) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- By the record books, Jamaican runner Usain Bolt is the fastest human being on earth, and yet no one knows for sure exactly how fast he really is. At the Beijing 2008 Olympics, on Saturday, ...