Visits To Paris Museum Of Evolution Hit 10 Million

Home to nearly 7,000 stuffed creatures, the Grand Gallery of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris is a treasure trove of evolutionary history, and has just welcomed its 10 millionth visitor.

Science Shows Men How To Dance

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Experts In Solar Cell Breathrough

Scientists unveil solar cell technology that could see ordinary surfaces, including windows, used to generate electricity.

Flexible Body Armor Offers Unique Protection

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Adult Stem Cell Research Far Ahead Of Embryonic

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F1 Technology For The Army

The MoD is testing F1 technology to be integrated into armoured vehicles used in places like Afghanistan.

Easter Island Gears Up For Solar Eclipse

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Science Sheds Light On Lebanese Origins

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Scientists Make Synthetic Cell Using Manmade DNA

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A Laser To Study Volcanic Cloud

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Honda Unveils 'Personal Mobility' Device

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Atom Smasher Opens 'New Era' For Science

Scientists celebrated a momentous scientific achievement as the world's biggest atom smasher near Geneva started colliding particles at record energy levels, opening a new era in the quest for the secrets of the universe.

Amazing Holographic Laser Gadget

A small British firm is leading the world with its state of the art holographic laser touchscreen display technology.

Large Hadron Collider Back Online

The Large Hadron Collider is back online after an embarassing malfunction put it out of service for more then a year.

Preparing The World's First Fusion Reactor

An experimental reactor that could harness nuclear fusion has yet to see the light of day, but preparations for the daring multi-billion-pound project are well under way. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), backed by the European Union, the United States, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Russia, is expected to be fully operational in 2026.

Dyson Puts New Spin on Household Fan

James Dyson's take on the vacuum cleaner drew accolades in the design and engineering world. Now he's set his sights on the ordinary electric fan, and he's putting a whole new spin on it.

Scientists Create Human Sperm

Scientists from Newcastle claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory.

World's Most Powerful Laser Unveiled

The world's most powerful laser was dedicated at the Livermore National Laboratory in California. It's designed to shore up the nation's aging nuclear weapons.

The End of the World? Large Hadron Collider (LHC) About to be Activated

The first particles have been injected into the largest particle accelerator on the planet, marking the start of the countdown to probing the secrets of the universe.

Scientists are  powering up the machine, many people are worried that it could destroy all life on Earth by sucking it into a black hole.

Earlier this month, the successful injection of the first particles - protons

A test on September 10th 2008 will circulate a particle beam through the whole LHC. On October 21st 2008 the first particle beam collision will take place

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of 7 TeV protons. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. This model is known to break down at a certain high energy level.

The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC is the world's largest and the highest-energy particle accelerator. It is funded and built in collaboration with over eight-thousand physicists from over eighty-five countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.

The collider is currently undergoing commissioning while being cooled down to its final operating temperature of approximately 1.9 K (−271.25 °C). Initial particle beam injections were successfully carried out between 8-11th August 2008, the first attempt to circulate a beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for September 10, 2008, and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008.

When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass. The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out only gravity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared to the other three forces. In addition to the Higgs boson, other theorized novel particles that might be produced, and for which searches are planned, include strangelets, micro black holes, magnetic monopoles and supersymmetric particles.

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