A team of over 2,000 scientists is preparing for the world’s largest ever physics experiment next year at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, which will aim to find new particles, detect mini black holes and solve some of the mysteries of the universe.
The Planetary Society is putting up the $50k prize money to anyone who can design a system for tagging and tracking the potentially Earth-threatening asteroid, Apophis. More infos about the competition, rules ect. can be found on planetary.org! American scientists are offering a $50,000 prize to the person who designs a system for tagging and tracking […]
Space shuttle Discovery lit up the sky over Daytona Beach, Florida, this weekend in NASA’s first night launch since 2002. After weather-related delays on December 7 and 8, the shuttle—bound for the International Space Station—blasted off with a crew of seven from Kennedy Space Center at 8:47 p.m. ET on December 9. NASA suspended night […]
Essay by Richard Dawkins A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane’s exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular targets. It could not zero in on a designated New York skyscraper if launched from as far away […]