Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang

Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.

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French arrest physicist suspected of al-Qaida link

A physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher has been arrested on suspicion of links to al-Qaida, adding to the woes of the $10 billion project that ceased operation a year ago — just days after its celebrated start up.

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Particle collider: Black hole or crucial machine?

When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would suck in the world. It turns out the Hadron may be the black hole.

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Vatican visits CERN's Big Bang machine

A senior Vatican delegation visited the world's biggest nuclear physics laboratory, proclaiming that true faith has no problems with science.

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New delay for European space telescope rocket

European satellite launcher Arianespace SA on Monday announced a new delay in the launch of a space telescope and a spacecraft meant to gather information about the Big Bang cosmic explosion.

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Questions and answers about the CERN collider

Questions and answers about the Large Hadron Collider:

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Scientists beaming after test of big atom smasher

A small blip on a computer screen sent champagne corks popping among physicists in Switzerland. Near Chicago, researchers at a "pajama party" who watched via satellite let out an early morning cheer.

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CERN fires up new atom smasher to near Big Bang

It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday.

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Researchers may have found cosmic Rosetta stone

Star light, star bright. The first star grew fast, but began slight. The first cosmological object formed in the universe was a tiny protostar with a mass of about 1 percent of our sun, according to U.S. and Japanese researchers who spent years developing a complex computer simulation of what it was like after the Big Bang that formed the universe.

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More than a year after an explosion of sparks, soot and frigid helium shut it down, the world's biggest and most expensive physics experiment, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is poised to start up again.

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As if the universe weren't strange enough, scientists have recently discovered that entire galaxy clusters—the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of thousands of galaxies—are moving toward the same area.

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...the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future.

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France has arrested a researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) for suspected links with al-Qaeda, officials have said. The 32-year-old man of Algerian descent was one of two brothers detained in the south-east town of Vienne on Thursday.

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"The pattern that the data reveal is extremely odd. It's like finding a zoo of animals of all ages and sizes miraculously having identical, say, weight in their backbones or something.

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The first black holes in the universe were born starving. A new study found that the earliest black holes lacked nearby matter to gobble up, and so lay relatively stagnant in pockets of emptiness.

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In this video, we learn that the know-it-alls who dreamed up the Big Bang and evolution don't know what they're talking about. Edward Current proves this with a few simple science experiments. (ps, sorry about the picture quality.

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A senior Vatican delegation visited the world's biggest nuclear physics laboratory, proclaiming that true faith has no problems with science.

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Happy Fathers Day to Time, Chance and Random Gases

The first father's day is said to have been celebrated on June 5, 1908. The first time the day was noted was in a Methodist church in Fairmount, West Virginia. It is among one of America's most unusual observations today more than ever before because in the U.S.

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What would have happened if hanging chads and the Supreme Court hadn't denied Al Gore the White House in 2000? Many things would clearly have been different over the next eight years.

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For neutrinos created recently, the ranges they can exist in are very, very small. But over the roughly 13.7-billion-year lifetime of the cosmos, "relic" neutrinos have been stretched out by the expansion of the universe, enlarging the range in which each neutrino can exist.

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Cosmologists don't usually take their lead from the animal kingdom. But a model that postulates the existence of a 'chameleon' particle — which would change its mass depending on its surroundings — is gaining attention. More Articles

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Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a Hubble Space Telescope observation that has refined the measurement of the universe's present expansion rate to a precision where the error is smaller than five percent. More Articles

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Engineers have finished the major work of fixing the broken "Big Bang" machine, the largest scientific instrument ever built.

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Author of Genesis and the Big Bang; in which he shares his discovery of harmony between modern science and the Bible. Dr. Gerald Schroeder Phd earned his doctorate in earth physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The reigning hypothesis of galaxy formation holds that such well-established spirals would have formed about 13 billion years ago, shortly after the Big Bang. But the new discovery of a group of 15 spirals that look to be much younger may upset that thinking.

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BY ABOUT a billion years after the big bang, our universe was reionised. Hydrogen atoms were torn apart into electrons and protons, but the perpetrator has been something of a mystery. Could dark matter be responsible?

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Exploring the Scientific Miracle of The Holy Qur'an

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It makes absolute sense that the folks at the Apple store Genius Bar would freak out at the sight of the cast of " The Big Bang Theory." Or that thousands of fans would fill a room to spend time with them at Comic-Con last summer.

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A big explosion, in the name of science, scared a lot of people in a small town. Mythbusters went to Yolo County and ended up with a bigger bang than expected.

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Author of Genesis and the Big Bang; in which he shares his discovery of harmony between modern science and the Bible. Dr. Gerald Schroeder Phd earned his doctorate in earth physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Stephen Hawking barely needs an introduction, but his recent direction does. He is packaging the universe for the younger generation. With his daughter Lucy Hawking, he has branched out into writing children's books. More Articles

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I'm starting to see a little light at the end of the dark, abysmal tunnel of extra work that was recently forced on me at my day job , and I hope to be back to Skepchicking full-time very soon.

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In a nominating letter, Nidhal Guessoum, chair of physics at American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, wrote that d'Espagnat "has constructed a coherent body of work which shows why it is credible that the human mind is capable of perceiving deeper realities."

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