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LHC makes a Small Bang

You all know about the big bang theory right? Well, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has generated a mini version! He said that the collisions obtained were able to generate the highest temperatures...

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Water Antenna

An antenna needs to be made out of a conductor, right?  Well, salt water is a conductor. What they came up with is little more than an electromagnetic ring and a water pump. The ring, called a current...

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DSO Nano v2 gets new firmware

User BenF has released a fantastic new firmware for the DSO Nano v2.  Take a look at the following feature list.  The Seeedstudio team happily concede that this is better than the factory firmware....

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Standard Bank’s new datacentre

It houses the only purpose-built tier-4 data centre in the southern hemisphere and there are only six or seven facilities like it in the world. The data centre, built by Standard Bank at a cost of...

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Manual BOINC?

Once again, something that is not technically difficult can solve problems that are extremely difficult technically. Computer scientist Luis von Ahn, after noting that over nine billion person-hours...

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Remote Controlled Clouds

This is pretty insane! When Qatar, an insanely wealthy Arab emirate roughly the size of Connecticut, won the bid to host the 2022 World Cup, one of the stipulations was that its newly constructed...

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Lewis Pugh “Human Polar Bear” goes head to head with Shell

I received this via email and whether or not it is exactly what it claims to be, it remains a good speech.  (If you can look past the bit about global warming!)  It is apparently the content of a short...

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NASA Mars Rover Curiosity landing

NASA have released a movie style trailer which describes in a lot of detail exactly how they plan to land the Mars rover Curiosity on the surface of Mars on August 5th.  Really awesome! via Laughing...

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