LHC collides hadrons at 7 TeV The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced on March 30, 2010 that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had collided particles at seven teraelcetron volts (TeV) for the first...

Earlier this month, a Montreal man was convicted of illegally recording a movie in the theatre, and sentenced to 2 ½ months in jail. This case is significant, not only because it represents the...

Nothing, it seems, motivates people quite as strongly as money. Like it or not, financial loss or gain is one of the best ways to get people onboard with a new way of thinking....

Buried in the permafrost on a tiny island in the Arctic Ocean is a vault, which may contain the future of humankind. It doesn’t contain weapons, gold or books, nor anything else you would...

What if I told you that enough of the sun’s energy strikes the Earth every hour to power the entire planet for a full year? That would mean that if we could collect 100...

Science was proved fallible once again, when NASA’s gamma ray telescope made a startling discovery: galaxies don’t emit as much gamma rays as was previously thought. To put this into context, you first need...

Plants get a bum rap for being lazy do-nothings who are content to bask in the sun all day if you let them. Furthermore, a bunch of them just go dormant for months at...