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Big Bang Test: 1st protons fired, world safe | On Youtube | Pics

Geneva: Scientists at the world's largest particle collider have fired the first protons into a 17-mile-long tunnel in science's next great step to understand the makeup of the universe. Project leader Lyn Evans gave the...

Wind Power Generators

Advantages & Disadvantages of Home Wind Turbines Before buying a wind powered generator it's important to know output, area wind availability, restrictions, disadvantages, and where to buy a reliable generator. The power...

Felix Dennis in interview: 'Drunks talk trash, don't they?'

The last time publisher Felix Dennis gave an interview, he said he killed someone. The notorious magazine publisher and 101st richest person in the country, who is now a poet, says that he and his interviewer, Ginny Dougary,...

Halloween Costumes for Geeks

For kids, Halloween is all about candy. For teens, it’s an excuse for deviant behavior. And for adults, it’s all about living vicariously. Hence the number of slutty pirate costumes. But as the dudes who dressed up as iPhones...

Snowing on Mars

MARK COLVIN: The latest weather forecast on Mars is for morning fog, swift-moving clouds and light snow. NICOLA FELL: NASA scientists have posted the images of snow falling on Mars on their website for all of us to wonder at....

Pop science's big bang

Stephen Hawking’s book A Brief History of Time, first published 20 years ago, reshaped the science publishing landscape. John D Barrow charts the rise of the popular-science book and looks at the huge impact of Hawking’s...

Aids for the disabled out of reach

Inflation plays havoc with prices of wheelchairs, tricycles and other equipment B. Bhavna, a student with cerebral palsy can communicate only by moving her eyes across a home-made chart of letters and numbers propped in...

Before the big bang?

Sir Roger Penrose to share the latest theories at Perimeter Institute public lecture Sir Roger Penrose, prominent lecturer and author, as well as highly distinguished mathematician and theoretical physicist, will give...

Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time

Prof Stephen Hawking is to unveil a remarkable £1 million clock with no hands that pays tribute to the world's greatest clockmaker. One clock made by the legendary John Harrison, the pioneer of longitude, took 36 years to...

Vulnerability and the Need for Self-Sufficiency

News Type: Event — Sat Sep 27, 2008 5:02 AM EDT Environmentalism isn’t (and shouldn’t be) just about going green. All such chance disasters or attacks, which don’t even have to include the affects of global warming, have...