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ZDNet UK Highlights (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tests of the computing grid that will manage data from the Large Hadron Collider experiment showed the systems successfully handled large amounts of information, according to Cern
Life as a Physicist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sorry if this is old news… CERN management recently had a council meeting. These meetings take place between the council and the CERN directory general. Big funding changes, new projects, major schedule changes, a new country wants to join CERN, etc., all have to be approved by this council. As you might imagine the recent council [...]
Ask Slashdot (Free subscription) | yesterday
DynaSoar writes "While its cousin/competitor site, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, remains offline, Fermilab's Digital Hadron Calorimeter continues to produce significant results. Recently Fermilab announced discovery of the Omega-sub-b baryon, a 'doubly-strange' particle. This baryon, containing two strange quarks and one bottom quark, has six times the mass of a proton. 'The Omega-sub-b is...
dubplate digest. (Free subscription) | yesterday
Three years is too long to wait for a new studio mix from Perpetuum . One of my favorite producers of any genre, as well as one of the few cats I'd consider a true homey, has recently dropped a 75 minute mix, featuring a host of tunes from the forthcoming Hard Soul album with Ink (which is amazing, trust), as well as a top-notch selection of new beats. Perp told me about a bunch of new releases, from...
Silicon.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The grid that will process data from the Large Hadron Collider has undergone stress testing, with Cern and other organisations trying to gauge its limits. The tests, called Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme '09, threw huge amounts of data around the distributed computing project, which uses dedicated optical-fibre networks to distribute data from Cern (the European Organization for Nuclear...
Heliogenic Climate Change (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The ITCZ has been moving northward since the temperature minimum of the Little Ice age 300 years ago: "New research from the University of Washington indicates that the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), which is a persistent band of showers and heavy thunderstorms that produces heavy rainfall near the equator, has been creeping northward for more than 300 years now. The zone, on average,...
We The Free (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
clipped from wattsupwiththat.com You’ve probably all heard of Svensmark and the Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) to cloud cover modulation theory by now. Lot’s of warmists say it is “discredited”. However, CERN in Switzerland isn’t following that thinking, and after getting some encouraging results in the CLOUD06 experiment, they have funded a much larger and more comprehensive...
Celestial Junk (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
... is in the clouds: You’ve probably all heard of Svensmark and the Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) to cloud cover modulation theory by now. Lot’s of warmists say it is “discredited”. However, CERN in Switzerland isn’t following that thinking, and after getting some encouraging results in the CLOUD06 experiment, they have funded a much larger and more comprehensive CLOUD09...
Andrew Bolt (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Man may be innocent, after all. Jasper Kirkby of CERN explains new research…
Micky's Muses (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
...Since this blog began, I have posted the address details of the ARGOS and CLOUD experiments many times. To reiterate, ARGOS is an extensive experiment monitoring ocean temperatures using thousands of submersible buoys, distributed around the world. The CLOUD experiment uses a cloud chamber to study the possible link between galactic cosmic rays and cloud formation. Based at the Proton Synchrotron...
Heliogenic Climate Change (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
A slide show titled Cosmic Rays and Climate has been prepared by Jasper Kirkby of CERN as an introduction to CERN's CLOUD experiment which "aims to study and quantify the cosmic ray-cloud mechanism in a controlled laboratory experiment" and answer "the question of whether - and to what extent - the climate is influenced by solar/cosmic ray variability". Two slides are shown above...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Message in the CLOUD for Warmists: The end is near? « Watts Up With That? I get so many tips now it is hard to choose, but this one is a gem. If you look at nothing else this month, please take the time to download the slide show from CERN’s Jasper Kirkby at the end of this article. New Sea Ice Video – this time watch the Antarctic « Watts Up With That? The huge annual variation...
[Geeks are Sexy] (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] A team over at Germany’s Helmholtz Zentrum München, led by Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos, has created a new technique for imaging relatively large and thick biological samples. Using lasers and an ultrasound machine, they can examine the detailed structure of an organism (this first test used a zebra fish) and create [...] Related posts: Scientists...
[Geeks are Sexy] (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
No, no, don’t worry folks, we’re not talking about the actual end of the world here, but of 2012, the upcoming movie from director Roland Emmerich, the same guy who produced Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. What? No LHC destroying Earth in this trailer? Clearly, I find Mr. Emmerich lack of vision disturbing! Related posts:Earth [...] Related posts: Earth Day: The World is Just...
Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Thanks to a unique "ballistic study" that combines data from ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have now solved a long-standing mystery of the Milky Way's particle accelerators. They show that cosmic rays from our galaxy are very efficiently accelerated in the remnants of exploded stars. During the Apollo flights astronauts reported seeing odd flashes...
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gustaf_moro | 09/10/2008
Large Hadron Collider - The Time Is Now! CERN's $9 billion, 17-mile long atom smasher was just turned on and we're awaiting reports on how the tests have gone. The Large Hadron Collider did experience "small electrical problems" overnight. However, these were not expected to delay the first test firing at 9:30am CEST . As such, the clockwise and counter-clockwise firing of particles should already...
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