Large Hadron Collider. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest single machine in the world.[1] It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries, as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.[2] It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as deep as 175 metres (574 ft) beneath the France–Switzerland border near Geneva, Switzerland. Its first research run took place from March 2010 to early 2013 at an energy of 3.5 to 4 teraelectronvolts (TeV) per beam (7 to 8 TeV total), about 4 times the previous world record for a collider,[3][4] Afterwards, the accelerator was upgraded for two years.
It was restarted in early 2015 for its second research run, reaching 6.5 TeV per beam (13 TeV total, the current world record).[5][6][7][8] Background[edit] Cost[edit] 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain. The Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica The Mystery: Costa Rica and a few surrounding areas are scattered with giant stone balls. They are smooth and perfectly spherical, or nearly so. Some of them are quite small, a few inches in diameter, but some of them are as large as eight feet in diameter weighing several tons. They have been chiseled to perfection by persons unknown, despite the fact that Costa Rica is still not scheduled to enter the Bronze Age until 2013.
The are balls everywhere and serve no apparent purpose, like a swing club on Gentlemen's Night. And God said, "It's nice, but could use some more purposeless balls. " Some of the balls have been blasted apart by locals hoping to find gold, coffee beans, or even babies. Why Can't They Solve It? About the most useful information anyone has gotten is that there are not, under any circumstance, any quarries anywhere near the balls. Our Guess: The Baghdad Batteries Source. Well, it's not like we keep digging up ancient camcorders over there. Baigong pipes.
BEIJING, China -- A team of Chinese scientists is to head out to the far west of the country to investigate a mystery pyramid that local legend says is a launch tower left by aliens from space. Nine scientists will travel this month to probe the origins of the 50-60 meter (165-198 ft) tall structure -- dubbed "the ET relics" -- in the western province of Qinghai, China's state-run Xinhua agency said on Wednesday. The mystery pyramid sits on Mount Baigong, has three caves with triangular openings on its facade and is filled with red-hued pipes leading into the mountain and a nearby salt water lake, Xinhua said.
Rusty iron scraps, pipes and unusually shaped stones are scattered around the inhospitable and largely uninhabited area, it said. ET theory A research fellow at a nearby observatory of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Yang Ji, told Xinhua the theory the pyramid was created by extra terrestrials was "understandable and worth looking into. " Mysterious Pipes. The Voynich Manuscript. 5 possible zombies. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we like to call a real, live, undead fucking zombie. So there. Chances this could cause a zombie apocalypse: Think about it. Under every legal system in the world, all rights and responsibilities are terminated at death. All it takes is someone with resources and a need for a mindless workforce of totally obedient slave labor. How long until somebody tries this?
We're betting somebody in the world, maybe North Korea, will have a working zombie by Christmas. As seen in... What are they? How it can result in zombies: Scientists have already created a nano-cyborg, by fusing a tiny silicone chip to a virus. According to studies, within a decade they'll have nanobots that can crawl inside your brain and set up neural connections to replace damaged ones.
Chances this could cause a zombie apocalypse: Do the math, people. Some day there will be nanobots in your brain. Now, it should be more than clear by this point that our goal is to be responsible researchers. Nanobots. 'Cellborg' Humidity Gauge First Bacterial Cyborg Chemists at the University of Nebraska have created a humidity gauge by actually 'assimilating' living bacteria into an electronic circuit. This appears to be the first instance in which a living cell becomes a fixed part of the structure of an electronic device. ('Cellborg' - first bacterial cyborg) Ravi Saraf and student Vikas Berry made their device from a standard silicon chip inlaid with gold electrodes.
First they added a coating of Bacillus cereus bacteria, which clustered together to form bridges between the electrodes. A rise in moisture levels causes the bacteria to swell slightly, which increases the distance between neighbouring nanoparticles by up to 0.2 nanometres. The bacteria must stay alive during their assimilation so that they do not leak any internal fluids and lose their shape. (Hugh - the Borg drone) Read Cyborg cells sense humidity. Scroll down for more stories in the same category. Comment/Join discussion ( 3 )
Neurogenisis. Abstract The results of controlled, retrospective clinical investigation of applying cell transplantation (CT) therapy in 38 severely head-injured patients are presented. The patients initially were in state of coma (Glasgow coma scale score 3–7), owing to their traumatic brain injuries. Cells prepared from fetal nervous and hematopoietic tissues were grafted subarachnoidally via lumbar puncture. The control group consisted of 38 patients and was clinically comparable with the trial one. From the results obtained it appears that CT treatment promoted both wakening consciousness of the patients and their following neurological rehabilitation. A death-rate in the trial and control group was 5% (two cases) and 45% (17 cases), respectively. According to a Glasgow scale, favorable (good + satisfactory) outcomes of a disease were noted in 33 (87%) cell-grafted and only in 15 (39%) control patients.
Keywords Cell transplantation; Brain injury; Coma Abbreviations Copyright © 2005 Elsevier SAS. Reanimation research. Reanimation involves the resuscitation of body organs after circulatory collapse. The organ that limits successful reanimation of organisms after cardiac arrest is the brain, which is irreversibly damaged after a few minutes without treatment. Other body organs can be reanimated after considerably longer circulatory collapses, as shown by the success of transplantation medicine.
The high sensitivity of the brain is not based on the especially quick death of nerve cells during a circulatory collapse, as was previously assumed, but rather on the fact that delayed haemodynamic and molecular disorders which contribute to secondary cell death arise after reanimation has started. Our current level of research makes it possible to minimize these disorders under stringent experimental conditions. The necessity of wide-ranging basic research in the field of reanimation is apparent.
Zombie Dogs. Toxoplasma Gondii Parasite Mind Control. Toxoplasma Gondii Parasite Mind Control Half of the world's human population is infected with Toxoplasma. Parasites in the body - and the brain. Remember that. Toxoplasma gondii is a common parasite found in the gut of cats; it sheds eggs that are picked up by rats and other animals that are eaten by cats. Toxoplasma forms cysts in the bodies of the intermediate rat hosts, including the brain. Since cats don't want to eat dead, decaying prey, Toxoplasma takes the evolutionarily sound course of being a "good" parasite, leaving the rats perfectly healthy.
Or are they? (Toxoplasma gondii) Oxford scientists discovered that the minds of the infected rats have been subtly altered. If the parasite can alter rat behavior, does it have any effect on humans? Toxoplasma infection is associated with damage to astrocytes, glial cells which surround and support neurons. Are parasites like Toxoplasma subtly altering human behavior? He reached past my shoulders with a rod. Comment/Join discussion ( 45 ) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (mad-cow) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a form of brain damage that leads to a rapid decrease of mental function and movement. Causes CJD is thought to be caused by a protein called a prion. A prion causes normal proteins to fold abnormally. This affects the other proteins' ability to function. There are several types of CJD.
The disorder is very rare, occurring in about 1 out of 1 million people. It usually first appears between ages 20 and 70. CJD can be grouped into two types: classic or new variant disease. The classic types of CJD are: Sporadic CJD makes up most cases. Classic CJD is not related to mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalitis). However, variant CJD (vCJD) is a form of the disease that is related to mad cow disease. Variant CJD accounts for less than 1% of cases, and it tends to affect younger people. Variant CJD can be caused by exposure to contaminated products. CJD may be related to several other diseases caused by prions, including: Symptoms Exams and Tests Treatment.