• Science

    Take an Amazing Virtual Tour of a 27-kilometer Particle Accelerator

    By Posted on 9.10.2008 18 Comments

    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a massive internationally-funded particle accelerator located in Switzerland, keeps hitting setbacks.  Originally scheduled to power up around 2005, the project's latest snag—supports for the collider's many powerful magnets are failing—has pushed the start date to May of 2008 [this could also affect the Higgs Boson PPX proposition]. Scientists also reported that cooling the massive magnets to the required 1.9 degrees Kelvin (that's cold) seems to be taking “a little longer than planned." Personally, I'm glad they’re spending a bit of extratime to get everything perfect, since one theoretical failure situation could lead to the creation of a black hole that devours the earth.

    9.9.2008 at 07:05am - Comment by HyDroLine

    Oh my god if its true we will all dye. If they are aware that there will be a black hole than why did they build this machine. It could put an end to the human race.

  • Technology

    These Rays Ain't from Around Here

    By Posted on 3.21.2008 2 Comments

    Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays carry more energy than any known particles in the universe, so we should probably all take it as good news that scientists have confirmed that they don't originate in our cosmic neighborhood. In fact, the majority of these rays—which are mostly hydrogen and helium—lose most of their juice on their way towards Earth because they interact with the cosmic microwave background radiation, the energetic leftover of the Big Bang.

    3.21.2008 at 12:31pm - Comment by HyDroLine

    But when might it reach earth

  • The Environment

    The Great Green Hope

    By Posted on 3.19.2008 4 Comments

    It could slow carbon dioxide emissions, power cars and jets, and replace petroleum altogether. Pond scum or green slimewhatever you want to call italgae is the next great hope in the world of environmental startups.

    3.20.2008 at 12:38pm - Comment by HyDroLine

    bite me

  • Technology

    Signs of Life Found Orbiting an Exoplanet–Sort of

    By Posted on 3.20.2008 9 Comments

    Everyone seems to be double-extra-cautiously optimistic about this finding, so dont go running out to your telescope tonight looking for greetings from friendly space creatures. But in work reported today in Nature, astronomers say they used the Hubble Space Telescopes infrared imager to pick up signs of methane in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a star some 63 million light years from Earth. And methane, an organic molecule, is an indicator of the possible presence of life.

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    3.20.2008 at 12:28pm - Comment by HyDroLine

    DID YOU KNOW THAT METHANE EQUALS TO CH4 + 2O2 → CO2 + 2H2O I just wonder how do they get the Hubble Telescope to see such images.



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