The Large Hadron Collider is really so very scary.

Please sit down calmly make sure you can not knock over your coffee and open up your mind to the problem we all may have to face, no need for a will no time to call a priest. You may just have seconds or...

Cern Large Hadron Collider restarts after 14 months

Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, based in Geneva, Switzerland are searching for the Higgs boson, a sub-atomic particle central to understanding physics. Higgs boson is only predicted to exist, in other words, it has never been...

LHC to Restart this Weekend, Again: More Freak Accident to Come?

After more than one year of delay, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could restart as soon as this weekend. Earlier this month, a piece of baguette caused the £4.4 billion LHC to overheat. More freak accidents to...

Austria to quit CERN -- Fallout From Economic Crisis

Austrian officials have announced that they will be withdrawing funding for their share of the Large Hadron Collider(LHC).  Austria has been part of the cooperative of nations supporting the particle...

Princeton Senior Finds Bug in Large Hadron Collider

A Princeton University senior discovered a hardware bug in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) while visiting CERN in Geneva last week. Xiaohang Quan is studying the LHC for her thesis, and clearly knows what she's...

LHC to Restart in September, not Spring

CERN has extended the timetable for the restart Large Hadron Collider to next September, not this Spring as had been hoped. Last September 19, just nine days after its initial start, the LHC suffered electrical...

Tap Dancing News Update 1/30/9

All the news that's fit to tap. Feel free to hum along.

Top 11 'Top 10' Science & Tech Lists + Predictions From 2008

My picks for 2008: Top 11 People and lists reporting on and/or predicting breakthroughs in Science and Technology. You’ll notice I cheated a lot; but, I still left a LOT of stuff out:  1) Jan-Dec 2008...

"I am frankly humbled." - CERN Scientist Working on the Large Hadron Collider

Conor Fitzpatrick is looking for something amazing. The Irish experimental particle physicist will be checking data from the CERN large hadron collider, which had its first successful beam test in their giant...

Why do they call it the "Big Bang", if there's nothing to it

I really don't understand the huge thing around the "Big Bang" stories going up and down, because there is nothing to it, no threat."One argument raised against doomsday fears was that collisions at energies...

Large Hadron "Big Bang" Rap Video a Big Hit on Youtube

A group of young workers at the "Big Bang" Large Hadron Collider project at CERN have made a rap video that is a big hit on Youtube (over 1.5 million hits).At least if we get swallowed by a black hole tomorrow...

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