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Only two days after the LHC became the world’s fastest particle accelerator , the agency running the operation, CERN, had to temporarily flip the off switch on part of the giant machine.
As reported by The Register :
It appears that a failure occurred at 01:23 Swiss time this morning ...
Physical Science
Mars
Large Hadron Collider
NASA
An Irish eye surgeon has noticed a dramatic rise in the number of patients with damaged retinas this year. The condition is called solar retinopathy, and Dr. Eamonn O’Donoghue, a consultant ophthalmologist surgeon, thinks he knows what’s causing the rise.
Via BBC News :
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Medicine
“Meat grown in laboratory in world first,” trumpets the headline of an article in The Telegraph .
The article went on to explain that Dutch researchers have grown in vitro meat in a laboratory, which is essentially edible fake meat grown in a test tube using the cells of a ...
Other
Look, it’s a recession, and you gotta do whatever you can to get your name out there. Ashley Towns, the 21-year-old Australian student who crafted the first iPhone worm , used the notoriety to land a job building iPhone apps with the Australian developer Mogeneration.
Though this might ...
Other
A few diamond cut-outs and a video camera are all the ingredients for one pretty awesome optical illusion , courtesy of GreeenPro2009.
That’s all we’re going to say. Enjoy.
How does it work? A few viewers offer their suggestions in the comments over on YouTube. (Hint: are ...
Other
Fool me with monkeys once, shame on you. Fool me twice… well, Puerto Ricans won’t get fooled again .
Some people on the island commonwealth are up in arms over the proposal by a company called Bioculture Ltd. to make Puerto Rico a major supplier of primates to researchers in the ...
Physical Science
If you’re anxious about the holidays, strap on the rather tepidly named Rationalizer to monitor your stress levels so that you can avoid flipping out in front of the fam (again). From Physorg.com :
The Rationalizer consists of an “EmoBracelet” and an “EmoBowl” ...
Other
There are plenty of things about driving to make your blood pressure rise: screaming kids in the back, crappy songs on the radio, rising gas prices, idiot drivers who don’t know what they’re doing and need to get off the phone and keep their eyes on the road and…
Whew, ...
Other
So you’ve sufficiently gorged yourself on turkey and deviled eggs, now it’s time to flop onto the couch and slip away into a tryptophan coma. Luckily, the Pzizz Relax iPhone app will ensure you get the perfect post-meal nap, even on your relative’s horribly uncomfortable, ...
Other
And now, a cautionary yarn to keep in mind this Thanksgiving. Even great amateur scientist/polymaths like Ben Franklin can have turkey-related mishaps, according to the Annals of Improbable Research :
In December 1750, Franklin learned one lesson the hard way, when he shocked himself while ...
Other
iLingual (not to be confused with Linguo , the grammar robot) will help you communicate in a foreign county and make people smile at the same time.
According to Cult of Mac :
The iLingual app is clever translation software that speaks foreign phrases with video of your mouth saying the ...
Other
2009 represents a double-dip of Charles Darwin milestones. A plethora of Darwin stories in the press have marked his 200th birthday. And today, as 80beats has already noted , is the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species , an occasion that sparked another round of ...
Life Science
Charles Darwin
Take Andy Rooney’s advice and prepare your Thanksgiving feast from scratch this year. After you’ve bravely hunted down a flightless bird and plucked its feathers , turn to science for the proper way to prepare a turkey. However, cooking it the scientific way won’t be easy, ...
Other
Consider this post to be your daily reminder to check your social network privacy settings–too much transparency could cost you your insurance benefits, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation :
Nathalie Blanchard, a Granby resident, says she’s suffering from severe ...
Other
Tales of grown-ups trying to ruin science in the schools usually seem to involve anti-evolutionists. But in Massachusetts, science education has clashed with a different force: squeamishness.
We here at Discoblog love the yuck factor of science. Can’t get enough of it. But for some ...
Other
Technology writer Chris Stevens calculated the weight of the Internet by adding up all the computers, iphones , blackberries, servers, cables – and just for fun, viruses and websites. The damage comes to 498,438,559,990 kilograms, which Wolfram|Alpha tells us is 1.7 times the mass of all ...
Medicine
• Gardak! To learn about children and language, Dad speaks to son only in Klingon for first three years of the child’s life.
• In Soviet Russia, blog writes you! Maksim Suraev, a Russian cosmonaut, joins the blogosphere with a healthy dose of cold war humor about life on the ...
Other
Galileo
As you’ve probably heard, a man’s testicles hang down because sperm are hyper-sensitive to temperature and need to be a little cooler than the inside of the body. But isn’t there more to it than that?
Oh, definitely yes, says research psychologist Jesse Bering, writing for ...
Other
Pop quiz: Which former NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year and Philadelphia Eagles standout is a (literally) big fan of science, and DISCOVER in particular? That’s right, defensive end Hugh Douglas.
Recently, as part of an ongoing effort to playfully engage the public in science, he ...
Physical Science
Large Hadron Collider
It’s Friday at last. So to help you goof off and avoid work, we bring you a double dose of time vampire iPhone apps .
First up, for the cat lovers out there who tragically don’t have any cats, comes CatPaint , a $0.99 app that lets you add images of cats to pics that you’ve ...
