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The world’s largest particle physics laboratory is under construction on the border between Switzerland and France. At the heart is the Large Hadron Collider Particle Accelerator being built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Its members hope it will reveal secrets of the universe and its formation. The goal of the project is to discover the origin of matter by replicating conditions just after “the big bang.” Twenty nations and international bodies make up CERN. Last April, scientists and journalists gathered at its Swiss headquarters, as the last of 1700 huge magnets was lowered into the Large Hadron Collider or LHC. CERN Director General Robert Aymar said, “It is an enormous task, with very tricky logistics, because the tunnel is very narrow, and when we move the magnets in nobody can be in the way.” The particle accelerator and collider is a 27 kilometer tunnel, about 100 meters underground. CERN spokesman James Gillies describes the accelerator. “This is a discovery machine. It’s built to make discoveries and is going to tell us lots of new things about the universe.” If all goes as planned, subatomic particles will be accelerated around the tunnel next year, eventually approach light speed, and smash into one another. Gillies adds, “To me the most exciting thing is that we know an awful lot about a small amount of the universe. We understand the stars, the galaxies, the stuff which makes up you and me, but we also know from cosmology that is …
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Terence Kealey gives a talk on why science is not a public good, and why it is be better off done in the private sector. In this part Kealey answers a question about whether the private sector would fund research into pure science subjects like number theory despite a seeming lack of immediate commercial applications.
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Shocking revelation on the cancer business from the 1st Workshop “PHYSICS for HEALTH” held at CERN, Geneva. The author of the Axial-PET project, Christian Joram, states: “This is not a cancer research project”. Yet the next day the Axial-PET project receives the first prize from CERN for the best cancer research project and the Association Madame Curie assigns funding to it.
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One of the Universe’s open questions maybe a step closer to be answered thanks to over 30 atoms of antihydrogen that have been trapped and stored by scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, Cern. According to a written statement, this opens the path to new ways of making detailed measurements of antihydrogen, which will allow scientists to compare matter and antimatter, the latter being what annihilates ordinary matter in a single explosive flash of energy.
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For more information: space.newscientist.com Images of Saturn from the Hubble Space Telescope have been seamlessly woven together into three movies of the majestic planet rotating. The second movie shows Saturn with its rings at maximum tilt towards Earth Courtesy of NASA
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Terence Kealey gives a talk on why science is not a public good, and why it is be better off done in the private sector.
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For more information: space.newscientist.com Images of Saturn from the Hubble Space Telescope have been seamlessly woven together into three movies of the majestic planet rotating. The first movie shows the moons Titan and Tethys orbiting Saturn. Courtesy of NASA
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