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Big bang machine zips into record books

This content was published on Nov 30, 2009 Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) were able to use the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to accelerate twin proton beams to 1.18 teraelectonvolts (TeV). That beats the previous record of 0.98TeV set in the United States in 2001. In particle physics, an electron volt is a measurement of kinetic energy. A TeV…

Swiss teacher boldly goes on a Mars mission

This content was published on Nov 27, 2009 The training will take place at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, whose clients include Nasa. For two weeks Burtscher will live in conditions akin to those on the Red Planet. Burtscher, who is 24 years old, leaves on Friday and will join five others at the station, whose location in the desert of…

New Bern

This content was published on Nov 27, 2009 Archival documents and preserved landmarks highlight New Bern’s 300 years.

Campaign against solariums continues

This content was published on Nov 26, 2009 The organisation said on Thursday that research results from international bodies had shown that the effects of the ultraviolet rays were carcinogenic. In a statement it added that the minutes spent on a sun bed were dangerous for the skin and increased the risk of skin cancer. The Swiss Cancer League pointed out that regular…

Big Bang atom smasher records first proton hits

This content was published on Nov 24, 2009 The results are a big step forward for the world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), housed under the Swiss-French border, which has been built to reproduce “Big Bang” conditions. It is hoped that the experiments will provide clues about the origins of the universe in the next few months as the particle…

Big Bang atom smasher records first proton hits

This content was published on Nov 24, 2009 The results are a big step forward for the world’s largest atom smasher, housed under the Swiss-French border, which has been built to reproduce “Big Bang” conditions. It is hoped that the experiments, which run in a 27-kilometre tunnel, will already start giving clues about the origins of the universe in the next few months…

A family piles up the records

This content was published on Nov 23, 2009 Up in the air or down in the deep, breaking records is what the Piccard family has been good at for three generations.

“Unsustainable” cities need radical rethink

This content was published on Nov 23, 2009 Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) has launched a collaboration with two universities in Singapore in an effort to produce a template for the modern sustainable city. Many of today’s cities are reaching breaking point in terms of pollution and sheer numbers of people, according to ETHZ professor for architecture Gerhard Schmitt. “Cities provide living…

Big Bang collider restarted

This content was published on Nov 21, 2009 After a year’s delay, the beams began circulating late on Friday in the huge tunnels under the Swiss-French border that are part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). “It’s great to see beam circulating in the LHC again,” said Cern Director General Rolf Heuer. “We’ve still got some way to go before physics can begin,…

Records in the genes

This content was published on Nov 13, 2009

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