After 10 years, the annual Bogart Wine Aficionado Dinner in Los Angeles will host its final event on May 10: a decadent four-course meal paired with 10 important wines for just 160 guests. The dinner ($1,250 per person) will begin with Champagne and appetizers at the Bazaar by Jos
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Scientific American editors Mark Fischetti and Michael Moyer discuss some of the sessions they attended at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Read More »LHCb experiment squeezes the space for expected new physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Results presented by the LHCb collaboration this evening at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference, held this year in La Thuile, Italy, have put one of the most stringent limits to date on the current theory of particle physics, the Standard Model. LHCb tests the Standard Model by measuring extremely rare processes, in this case a decay pattern predicted to happen just three times out of every billion decays of a particle known as the Bs (B-sub-s) meson.
Read More »Twists to quantum technique for secret messaging give unanticipated power
Quantum cryptography is the ultimate secret message service. Now new research, presented at the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting, shows it can counter even the ultimate paranoid scenario: when the equipment or even the operator is in the control of a malicious power.
Read More »Large Hadron Collider to run at 4 TeV per beam in 2012
(PhysOrg.com) -- CERN today announced that the Large Hadron Collider will run with a beam energy of 4 TeV this year, 0.5 TeV higher than in 2010 and 2011. This decision was taken by CERN management following the annual performance workshop held in Chamonix last week and a report delivered today by the external CERN Machine Advisory Committee (CMAC).
Read More »Mayor Bloomberg Wants Entrepreneurs to Step Forward
This summer, you can be recognized by New York City for your small business achievements. Every year, the annual Neighborhood Achievement Awards celebrates great entrepreneurial talent in New York City.
Read More »What’s Hot in Consumer Electronics
Expectations always run high at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held in Las Vegas in January, where the industry unveils its latest and greatest products and innovations. The higher-end manufacturers didn’t disappoint
Read More »Tortoises Don’t Catch Yawns
The following post is from a series about the annual Ig Nobel Prizes in science, which honor “achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think.” They were awarded in September in Cambridge, Mass. [More]
Read More »6 Common Misconceptions about the Flu-and Flu Shots
MALTA--Efforts to create a universal flu vaccine, one that would do away with the annual reformulations, is a hot topic these days in the infectious disease community.
Read More »Witness: Arctic Ice Breaks Up as Polar Bears Stalk Ship
By Gerard Wynn 500 MILES FROM THE NORTH POLE (Reuters) - Stepping onto an Arctic ice floe on Monday, an unusually mild, easterly breeze blew at the end of the annual summer melt. The footprints of two polar bears from the night before were disintegrating in a dusting of snow.
Read More »Being Married Affects Heart And Waist
Marriage can have its ups and downs.
Read More »Man Fired for Refusing to Wear a Speedo
A 61-year-old lifeguard is suing for age discrimination after he was fired for refusing to wear a Speedo.
Read More »Healthy eating adds $380 to yearly grocery bill, study shows
If you are trying to eat as healthy as the government wants you to, it’s going to cost you: at least $7.28 a week extra, that is.
Read More »What is: Open Laboratory 2011
The Open Laboratory is the annual anthology of the best writing on science blogs.
Read More »An Appetizing All-Star Event
Satisfy your penchant for pork on July 24, when the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas presents its first All-Star Cochon culinary event, the latest addition to the annual Cochon 555 competition series, which celebrates heritage breed pigs. Chefs and butchers from restaurants such as French Laundry in Napa Valley, Calif., Del ...
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