Engadget:
"We have captured it! First circulating beam of 2009!" And with that tweet, researchers at CERN announced that they did in fact activate the Large Hadron Collider, after quite a long delay and despite warnings of a looming, n (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Giles Foden is carried along by a holistic view of the salmon's lifecycleWhen Richard Shelton's first book The Longshoreman: A Life at the Water's Edge was published in 2004 it was acclaimed by Telegraph and Guardian readers (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
This past year or two I've been revisiting what you might call my cultural roots. Because I was distracted almost daily by treatment for a wounded foot and unable to work much, I began re-reading the PG Wodehouse, Edgar Rice (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
In the fourth of a series of Q&As with the shortlisted authors, Reif Larsen discusses his novelWhat moved you to write an illustrated account of a child prodigy's adventuresome life?This book, like most creations, grew in fit (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Meteorites, microscopes, or mixing things to go boom. Your science nerd loves it all. Here are a couple of gift ideas for that space explorer, mad scientist, or engineer in your life. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as mu (Read More)
The Guardian:
The real challenge to the biblical literalism held dear by creationists is in the Bible itselfAn academic conference in Louisville, Kentucky, provided me with an opportunity to visit the Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg w (Read More)
FitSugar -- Healthy, happy you.:
It's a big movie weekend, for sure. With New Moon finally out, I've already committed myself to spend an afternoon at the theater - the only complication is that I'm not so fond of the movie-theater fare. It's an admittedly c (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
NJIT researchers are at work on many scientific and technological frontiers. The National Science Foundation has recently provided support that totals nearly $4.3 million for the diverse efforts of the following investigators (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Bright ideas and products in skiing and snowboarding, from a Norwegian hotel built into a mountainside to an inflatable pack that can save you from an avalanche Skiing and snowboarding have always been cutting-edge sports, th (Read More)
Submitted by PinkLisa
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You loved the book. Now wear the shirt! A truism for you: everything is better with bacon. Also? Everything is better with zombies. Does it then follow, as the night the day, that everything is better with undead pork? We ar (Read More)
New York Times:
The e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university will undoubtedly raise questions about the actions of some scientists.
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Reuters: Science News:
ROME (Reuters) - An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum said on Friday.
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SF Gate:
Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Friday. Scientists recently (Read More)
Popular Science - SciTech:
Leave a comment to win a TWITF T-shirt! UV phasers, battlefield-based cryogenic tech, computerized cat brains and space fish on Jupiter's moon? Believe it, baby. The future is yours, and we've rounded it up for you in high s (Read More)
Popular Science - SciTech:
Is there any medical use for black market human fat? Scientists are skepticalPlentiful fat seems more reviled than revered in today's society, even when it has uses for the medical and cosmetic industries. But today police an (Read More)
Gizmodo:
I'm not quite sure what exactly is going on here, me being somewhat of a dullard and all, but I do know one thing: this there is one neat video. (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
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There are mistakes and there are mistakes. Some mistakes we learn from. For example: Thinking that selling toys for pets on the Web is a great way to get rich. We're not going to do that again (Read More)
Huffington Post:
I'll admit, as someone who spends most days looking for leaked documents, the package of stolen emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University is pretty juicy. Anything provides insight into the (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
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The party’s in full swing today on Google Chrome OS bashing – it seems that the blogosphere took cues from Steven Hodson yesterday, and multiple bloggers are attempting to advance the theory that Chrome OS is going to fail, (Read More)