particle accelerator

Do you think the world will come to an end this year?

I've read an article recently about the experiment that is going to begin in August this year, involving CERN's giant particle accelerator. Some people reckon it might create black holes that will...

Breaking open the unknown universe

BoardBuzz enjoys science. And with so much attention being paid by school boards and others on the need to beef up science and math instruction and get kids more excited about these fields, we want...

It's the end of the world as we know it (but I feel fine)

Today, the world's largest particle accelerator started. Contrary to fears, the world hasn't been swallowed by a black hole or changed into a lump of strange particles yet. Of course, the...

Columbia Holds Wake For Historic Cyclotron

Pickens writes "They called it leviathan, behemoth, Big Bertha. At 12 feet wide, rising 7 feet above the cement floor and weighing an estimated 65 tons, the Columbia cyclotron, the particle...

C K: MarketingProfs Book Club Returns with 'Made to Stick'

With spring comes not only a new season but a "sticky" new segment. Yes bookworms, the MarketingProfs Book Club is back with the hottest book of the year! Did I just say we have a hot and sticky...

Another World: Remastered

PC game/ the protagonist of the game is Lester Knight Chaykin; a young, athletic, red haired physicist. Lester arrives at his high-tech underground laboratory during a thunderstorm, and continues to...

There must be a macro

I don't think a week goes by that I don't read some version of this story in today's Daily Mail:Schools should teach children the key skills they need for life - like walking and thinking - not set...

PARTICLE ACCELERATOR:

Britons fall out of love with marriage (Rosemary Bennett and Sam Coates, 2/22/07, Times of London) The number of Britons choosing to marry has fallen to the lowest levels in a hundred and eleven...

Radioisotope therapy will help provide custom cancer treatments to individual patients

Imagine a cancer treatment tailored to the cells in a patient?s body, each person receiving a unique treatment program. This is what Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council grantee...