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Breaking News: Balloon hunt soars on networkers' hot air
Source: Times Online

Zurich :: Switzerland | updated Mon Dec 07 01:57:07 -0800 2009 | technology-news

The Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) offered a $40,000 (£24,350) prize to the first person to locate ten big, red balloons raised on tethers across America on Saturday, from Portland, Oregon, to Miami, Florida. The goal was to...
Credibility Views: 9 | News Stories: 4 | Blog Posts: 5 | 14 | 17 | 1
 
Latest Breaking News: Working European collider pleases Rice physicist
Source: Houston Chronicle

Zurich :: Switzerland | updated Fri Dec 04 23:37:31 -0800 2009 | technology-news

Europe supplanted the United States as the epicenter of fundamental physics this week when a new particle accelerator became the most powerful atom smasher in the world. As part of its commissioning, the Large Hadron Collider accelerated protons to the...
Credibility Views: 4 | News Stories: 2 | Blog Posts: 1 | 18 | 8 | 0
 
Current News: Big Bang collider restarted
Source: SwissInfo

Zurich :: Switzerland | updated Wed Dec 02 21:50:39 -0800 2009 | technology-news

After a year's delay, the beams began circulating late on Friday in the huge tunnels under the Swiss-French border that are part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). "It's great to see beam circulating in the LHC again," said Cern...
Credibility Views: 2 | News Stories: 4 | Blog Posts: 7 | 30 | 28 | 0
 
Current World News: That’s One Big Bang For Mankind
Source: Truthdig

Geneva :: Switzerland | updated Fri Nov 27 09:37:44 -0800 2009 | technology-news

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider buried deep beneath the Swiss-French border made history Monday, smashing two proton beams traveling at near-light speed into each other. The LHC, also known as the big bang machine, is the largest machine on...
Credibility Views: 56 | News Stories: 15 | Blog Posts: 4 | 30 | 13 | 8
 
Latest World News: 'Big Bang Machine' restarts after 14 months of repairs
Source: NewKerala

Geneva :: Switzerland | updated Sat Nov 21 07:30:50 -0800 2009 | technology-news

The machine, which was designed to smash together beams of protons in a bid recreate conditions after the Big Bang, was launched with great fanfare last year. But, just nine days after the launch, it suffered a spectacular failure from...
Credibility Views: 20 | News Stories: 11 | Blog Posts: 14 | 31 | 30 | 1
 
Current Event: Swiss Say Google's Street View Is Too Revealing
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Geneva :: Switzerland | updated Sun Nov 15 11:46:10 -0800 2009 | technology-news

Swiss officials said Friday that they had sued Google to try to require it to tighten privacy safeguards on its Street View online service. It is the latest of a series of European objections to the company's handling of personal...
Credibility Views: 14 | News Stories: 6 | Blog Posts: 3 | 28 | 10 | 1
 
Latest World Event: Fermilab gets passed
Source: The Batavia Sun

Geneva :: Switzerland | updated Mon Nov 30 22:13:49 -0800 2009 | technology-news

French-Swiss border pushed past Fermilab's Tevatron, becoming the world's most powerful collider. "It's a mixed feeling of course for us," Fermilab spokesman Kurt Riesselmann said. "On one hand, we don't hold the world record any more. But on the other...
Credibility Views: 6 | News Stories: 13 | Blog Posts: 7 | 30 | 30 | 0
 
Breaking News Event: Atom smasher back on collision course
Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Zurich :: Switzerland | updated Sat Nov 21 03:55:00 -0800 2009 | technology-news

In an attempt to recreate conditions just after the Big Bang, beams of particles will again be sent whizzing round the giant atom smasher, deep under the Swiss and French countryside. But forget the previous scare that the $10 billion...
Credibility Views: 14 | News Stories: 3 | Blog Posts: 0 | 18 | 13 | 1
 
Latest News Event: Scientists hold their breath as they prepare to fire up the LHC
Source: The Guardian

Geneva :: Switzerland | updated Wed Nov 18 04:37:22 -0800 2009 | technology-news

A giant scientific instrument that was designed to recreate the big bang but blew itself up in the process will be back in business on Friday. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern , the nuclear research organisation...
Credibility Views: 18 | News Stories: 4 | Blog Posts: 2 | 5 | 2 | 0
 
Breaking World News: Large Hadron Collider Halted By Bird Crumbs
Source: Fox News

Geneva :: Switzerland | updated Fri Nov 06 11:42:15 -0800 2009 | technology-news

Scientists hope the $7.3 billion machine will shed light on the event that many scientists believe gave birth to the universe around 14 billion years ago, but the project has suffered a series of setbacks. The latest saw a "bit...
Credibility Views: 34 | News Stories: 4 | Blog Posts: 15 | 5 | 33 | 0

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