[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Scientists circulated beams of protons in the world’s largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time after a year of repairs caused by a spectacular failure after the billion machine was heavily damaged by a simple electrical fault.
The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak across much of the globe, health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.
A Pennsylvania university’s requirement that overweight students take a fitness course to graduate has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.
Physical or emotional abuse during childhood could speed up the body’s ageing process, US research suggests.
Much beset by magnet quenches, birds, bread, black holes, evil time travelers, and fools, the Large Hadron Collider successfully came online and orbited a proton beam today!
Photographs of the triumphant moment are within.
Is there any medical use for black market human fat? Scientists are skeptical
Plentiful fat seems more reviled than revered in today’s society, even when it has uses for the medical and cosmetic industries. But today police announced the arrest of a Peruvian gang accused of murdering people and selling their fat to the cosmetics industry, […]
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This week brought some fascinating news of the future to […]
A white power that can absorb more than half its weight in mercury
This simple-looking white powder can get mercury-contaminated water 100 times as clean as any other method, for about half the cost. Each grain is actually a carefully engineered molecular sponge designed to absorb more than half its weight in mercury.
The product of […]
It’s friday and we know you need something to keep you busy for the weekend, so here’s the perfect thing. As the efficiency (and business case) for nano-based solar technology continues to ascend, isn’t time you got in the game? Don’t worry, it’s not as easy as it sounds; in addition to powdered donuts, you’ll […]
Photo: Rolls Royce
Does It Matter? Depends How You Look at It…
Autocar reports that a source inside the company told them that Rolls Royce could have an electric version of its Phantom super-luxury car on the road by the end of 2010: “Internally it’s thought that the near-silence of electric propulsion, and the fact that full […]