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Feed SubscriptionLarge Hadron Collider proton run for 2011 reaches successful conclusion
(PhysOrg.com) -- After some 180 days of running and four hundred trillion (4x1014) proton proton collisions, the LHCs 2011 proton run came to an end at 5.15pm yesterday evening. For the second year running, the LHC team has largely surpassed its operational objectives, steadily increasing the rate at which the LHC has delivered data to the experiments.
Read More »Large Hadron Collider proton run for 2011 reaches successful conclusion
(PhysOrg.com) -- After some 180 days of running and four hundred trillion (4x1014) proton proton collisions, the LHCs 2011 proton run came to an end at 5.15pm yesterday evening. For the second year running, the LHC team has largely surpassed its operational objectives, steadily increasing the rate at which the LHC has delivered data to the experiments.
Read More »How Europe’s CO2 Cap and Trade Means Georgia Jobs
WAYCROSS, Ga.--Pawn shops, diners, churches and pine trees. Hundreds of thousands of pine trees.
Read More »How Europe’s CO2 Cap and Trade Means Georgia Jobs
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Read More »Medical marijuana? Montel Williams impressed by Israeli approach
TV celebrity, who uses cannibis to relieve pain from multiple sclerosis, pushing wider availability of medical marijuana
Read More »Drilling Ship to Probe Fault Zone that Caused Fukushima Quake
After being tossed about and damaged by the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, Japan's drilling ship the Chikyu has been given an especially fitting assignment: to drill into the fault zone and take temperature measurements near the epicentre of the magnitude-9.0 Tohoku earthquake that caused the tsunami. It will be the first time that researchers have drilled into an underwater fault soon after a quake.
Read More »Kaggle’s Anthony Goldbloom Helps Companies Crunch Data With Crowdsourcing For Quant Geniuses
It can take a bit more than a 30-second elevator pitch to understand Kaggle , a new Silicon Valley startup founded by 28-year-old Australian Anthony Goldbloom. After all, it's not selling anything, creating another social network, or peddling yet another useless app.
Read More »Kaggle’s Anthony Goldbloom Helps Companies Crunch Data With Crowdsourcing For Quant Geniuses
It can take a bit more than a 30-second elevator pitch to understand Kaggle , a new Silicon Valley startup founded by 28-year-old Australian Anthony Goldbloom. After all, it's not selling anything, creating another social network, or peddling yet another useless app
Read More »Kaggle’s Anthony Goldbloom Helps Companies Crunch Data With Crowdsourcing For Quant Geniuses
It can take a bit more than a 30-second elevator pitch to understand Kaggle , a new Silicon Valley startup founded by 28-year-old Australian Anthony Goldbloom. After all, it's not selling anything, creating another social network, or peddling yet another useless app
Read More »$300,000 t-shirt? UN fights famine with fashion
New York artists team up with UNICEF to sell shirts that raise money for famine relief in Africa
Read More »Entrepreneurship Surges
Despite a drop in venture capital investment in the third quarter, venture capitalist Jeff Bussgang says he is seeing a surge in entrepreneurial activity. Total dollars invested through venture capital dropped 12 percent in the third quarter of 2011 compared to the previous quarter, according to an October report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers and the National Venture Capital Association. While the venture capital market is up so far this year relative to 2010, the drop-off in the third quarter is likely related to the general uncertainty in financial markets.
Read More »Entrepreneurship Surges
Despite a drop in venture capital investment in the third quarter, venture capitalist Jeff Bussgang says he is seeing a surge in entrepreneurial activity. Total dollars invested through venture capital dropped 12 percent in the third quarter of 2011 compared to the previous quarter, according to an October report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers and the National Venture Capital Association
Read More »Entrepreneurship Surges
Despite a drop in venture capital investment in the third quarter, venture capitalist Jeff Bussgang says he is seeing a surge in entrepreneurial activity. Total dollars invested through venture capital dropped 12 percent in the third quarter of 2011 compared to the previous quarter, according to an October report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers and the National Venture Capital Association
Read More »Hidden Drivers of Childhood Obesity Operate Behind the Scenes
Anxiety around children's eating habits often peaks during sweets-laden holidays like Halloween, but the factors that contribute to excess weight in kids extend well beyond special occasions. Most children who are obese--now 17 percent in the U.S.--will carry that extra heft into adulthood, along with the long-term health consequences
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