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The £3.6bn Large Hadron Collider will be out of action for around two months after magnets over-heated, a spokesman for the project said today.
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) said damage to the huge project below Switzerland, discovered yesterday, was worse than it first thought.
The collider, which was designed to send particles around a [...]

Hubble finds an object so mysterious it got astronomers’ panties in a twist, if they wear panties at all.
In a paper to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, astronomers working on the Supernova Cosmology Project report finding a new kind of something that they cannot make any sense of.
The project used the Hubble Space Telescope to [...]

Now that almost everybody’s excited [some even kill themselves] about the planet-ending possibilities with the Large Hadron Collider, the current shitstravaganza begs an answer to the question, “So what happens if that proton beam hits me in a very personal way?”
Thirty years ago, in Russia, Anatoli Bugorski sort of stumbled on the answer:
As a researcher [...]

The detection of extra dimensions beyond the familiar four—the three dimensions of space and one of time—would be among the most earth-shattering discoveries in the history of physics. Now scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., are designing a new experiment that would investigate tantalizing hints that extra dimensions may indeed exist.
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Two photons can be connected in a way that seems to defy the very nature of space and time, yet still obeys the laws of quantum mechanics.
Physicists at the University of Geneva achieved the weird result by creating a pair of ‘entangled’ photons, separating them, then sending them down a fibre optic cable to the [...]

The Large Hadron Collider, or simply called “Hell,” is set to begin firing its beam tests within this week. Alright, it’s probably silly to think it is actually going to make a planet-destroying black hole, into which Earth would go and fuck itself. But if it would, imagine the drama and those naughty doomsday prophets [...]

Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell returned from his mission to the moon a changed man. He has spent the last 35 years trying to use the tools of science to figure out what happened. Along the way, he says that people knowledgeable about an alleged crash of an alien spaceship in Roswell, N.M., shared the information [...]

You don’t normally see magnetic fields, but the whiz kidz at NASA have found a way to make them appear. The video above is part of Magnetic Movie, which was filmed at NASA Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkley.
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{Mad: Astronauts have too much fun. Yeah, too much}