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. And God said, "It's nice, but could use some more purposeless balls.
" 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. The Voynich Manuscript.
5 possible zombies. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we like to call a real, live, undead fucking zombie.
So there. 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. 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. Keywords Cell transplantation; Brain injury; Coma.
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. 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. (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. 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.