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Re-Creating Creation, Take 2: The Large Hadron Collider Fires Up Again

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Holger Bech Nielsen, Big Bang, Lhc, Brian Cox, France, The Big Bang Theory, Cern, Physics, Higgs Boson, Walter Wagner, Al Qaeda, Niels Bohr, Tim Berners-Lee, Black Hole, Switzerland, Strangelets, God, Large Hadron Collider, Universe, Albert Einstein, World News
Ali A. Rizvi

Birds dropping baguettes, terrorist plots and nuclear critics have all tried to derail the Large Hadron Collider, but if all goes according to plan it will be re-creating the Big Bang in no time.

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From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology

Read More: Soviets, World Wide Web, 40th, Pentagon, Mosaic, Bulletin Board, Spam, Net, Netscape, Nuclear, China, Intergalactic Computer Network, Cold War, Britain, Personal Computer, England, Internet, Cern, 40, Malware, Apple, Pc, Russia, Usenet, Russians, Technology, Computer, Gopher, Space Race, Steve Jobs, Www, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Darpa, Lovely Spam, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Swords Into Plowshares, Botnet, Soviet Union, Birthday, Wonderful Spam, Html, Sputnik, Trojan, Hormel, Arpanet, Spiced Ham, Ucla, Chris Weigant, Virus, Spam Spam Spam Spam, Apple II, Hypertext, Steve Wozniak, World War II, Monty Python, Worm, Happy 40th Birthday Internet, Compuserve, Lan, Milnet, Technology News
Chris Weigant

Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.

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French Charge 'Big Bang' Scientist

AP | NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Switzerland, Al-Qaida, Al Queda, Al Qaida, France, Cern, Big Bang Theory Terrorist Scientist, Particle Scientist France, World News

PARIS — A French investigating judge has filed preliminary charges against a physicist at the world's largest atom smasher who is suspected of a...

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French Arrest Physicist At "Big Bang" Lab Because Of Al-Qaida Link

AP | ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Switzerland, Al-Qaeda, Al-Q, Al Qaida, France, Cern, Al-Qaida, Big Bang Lab, Al Qaeda, World News

GENEVA — A physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher has been arrested on suspicion of links to al-Qaida, adding to the woes of the ...

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What Business Leaders Can Learn From CERN's Collaborative Management Model

Krisztina Holly | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Cern, Innovation, Large Hadron Collider, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Business News
Krisztina Holly

Beyond the atom-smashing, business leaders have special reason to examine what is going on in Geneva. CERN's remarkable leadership and culture is what makes their extraordinary advancements possible.

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Angels and Demons -- Does Hollywood Science Equal Good Science?

Sharon Glassman | Posted 06.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tom Hanks, Ron Howard, Angels and Demons, Cern, Meryl Streep, Physics, CU Boulder, Fermilab, Ghostbusters, Patricia Rankin, Macguffin, Entertainment News
Sharon Glassman

Her experiment works for me. While the science of Angels and Demons doesn't hold up on close examination, this doesn't make the movie any less appealing to me in theory.

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Movie Review: Angels And Demons -- A Satisfying Thriller With Some Messages

Rob Kall | Posted 06.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Antimatter, Movie Reviews, Angels & Demons, Tom Hanks, Cern, Entertainment News
Rob Kall

For a thriller, Angels and Demons takes you on a more diverse emotional journey than most.

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"The Grid": New Network Of Supercomputers To Revolutionize Internet Speed

Times Online | Murad Ahmed | Posted 10.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Internet, Internet Speed Revolution, The Gird, Cern, Internet Revolution, Cern Supercomputers, Business News

The dawn of a new internet age has begun. A network of supercomputers, known as the Grid, is to revolutionise the speed at which information is downlo...

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Left Behind

Patrick Barry | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Europe, John McCain, Science & Technology, Cern, Particle Collider, Taxes, Chicago, Iraq, Obama, Mccain, R&D, Bush, Omnibus, Fermilab, Politics News
Patrick Barry

By Pat Barry and Hanna Lundqvist It's easy to look at science as an apolitical issue, something apart from partisan discord. But today's news of the...

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Large Hadron Collider, The Big Bang Machine That Can Destroy The Earth, Passes First Tests

AP | ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Large Hadron Collider, Big Bang, Cern, Switzerland, Home News

GENEVA — A small blip on a computer screen sent champagne corks popping among physicists in Switzerland. Near Chicago, researchers at a "pajama ...

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Large Hadron Collider is Either the Greenest or the Least Green Experiment Ever Made

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 10.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Black Hole, Switzerland, France, Cern, Nuclear Power, Environment, Nuclear Energy, Large Hadron Collider, European Center for Nuclear Research, Supermassive Black Hole, Scientists, Cnn, New York Times, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

Someone hit a switch today and began either the greenest or one of the most environmentally disastrous experiments in the world: The Large Hadron Coll...

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CERN's 17-Mile-Long Atom Smasher To Re-Enact 'Big Bang'

AP | ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS | Posted 10.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Cern, Large Hadron Collider, Big Bang, Atom Smasher, Science, Home News

GENEVA — It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe _ or dangerous tampering with nature that could...

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Atom-Smasher Could Open Black Hole, Reveal Secrets Of Science

Huffington Post | Posted 04.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Black Hole, Large Hadron Collider, Geneva, Europe, Atom-Smasher, Cern, Home News

The LA Times reports on the hair-raising concerns raised by some about the Large Hadron Collider, Europe's giant atom-smasher: Michelangelo L. Mangan...

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Does The Secret Of The Universe Lie Underground?

AP | Patrick Baert | Posted 04.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Germilab, God Particle, Big Bang, Atom Smashing, Lhc, Big Bang Theory, Peter Higgs, Cern, Higgs Boson, Large Hadron Collider, Standard Model, Big Bang Experiment, Atom Smasher, Living News

British scientist Peter Higgs, whose work is the cornerstone of modern physics, said Monday he is putting champagne on ice in the hope a new experimen...

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