This is the start of FastCompany.TV and here Robert Scoble, Managing Director, welcomes you and explains what's coming up. Some things that are coming soon? Tour of Microsoft Research's new building, more interviews with MySpace ...READ»
The Large Hadron Collider is like the Moon--round, large and mystical. To doubting thinkers, it's like the Moon missions: expensive and unnecessary. If you're a Dan Brown fan, it's dangerous. But whatever you think of it, the LHC is ...READ»
Near the end of the 1900s, scientists found the tau neutrino. It is the last of the fundamental building blocks of matter. My free article at helium.com:
The tau neutrino and its place within the century of scienceREAD»
You know Tim Berners-Lee as the inventor of the World Wide Web. CERN is the birthplace. So, how did Tim look up to at CERN? Ben Segal. Here Ben gives us some stories about CERN history and about Tim Berners-Lee.READ»
Unlocking the secrets of the universe doesn't come cheap. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has spent at least 10 years and $8 billion building the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest particle ...READ»
Here’s Part II of our insider’s look at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The machine that National Geographic said was looking for the God Particle, or the Higgs Boson Particle. This is the largest particle collider in the ...READ»
Near the end of the 1900s, scientists found the tau neutrino. It is the last of the fundamental building blocks of matter. My free article at helium.com:
The tau neutrino and its place within the century of science
audio ...READ»
[video_twistage 1]In this first part, of two (second part will be up soon) we meet Dr. Frank E. Taylor, a senior research scientist at MIT who is now working at CERN on their new Large Hadron Collider. This is a huge machine, 27 ...READ»
Blu-ray technology out-does DVD for one reason only: the discs store more information, so you can fit a higher-resolution movie file in the same physical space. That's a great thing now everyone and their dog has an HDTV. But a new ...READ»
Elecom doesn't think that the dozens of mice populating the shelves of your local PC store are doing a good enough job for you, so its releasing the Scope Node Mouse--a precision pointing device the company claims is about as accurate ...READ»
French physicist, Pablo Jensen, has devised a new model for approaching business real estate based on molecular physics.
Highlighted in the most recent issue of the American Physical Society's Tip Sheet, the model comes after ...READ»
It's diploma season again, which means not only that a new batch of students will soon be facing the reality of the workplace but also that universities will be handing out honorary degrees. A look at several honorees -- and how they earned their doctorates.READ»
It's diploma season again, which means not only that a new batch of students will soon be facing the reality of the workplace but also that universities will be handing out honorary degrees. A look at several honorees -- and how they earned their doctorates.READ»
The Force, the energy released at the moment of the Big Bang expanded out and created a volume of space at the same time it also began to transformed itself into a zillion different elementary particles, fermions and bosons if you ...READ»
While you were putting your dreams of a World Cup final to bed, innovation was smashing particles together at an amazing rate, ruminating over the fallout of the BP oil spill, and fiddling with its new smartphone.1. It's been 69 days ...READ»
Europe's ITER project is blowing $14 billion on the creation of a nuclear fusion power plant, but the bloated project might be outrun by General Fusion, a Vancouver, Canada startup that claims it can build a prototype plant in under a ...READ»
Director of Terminator Salvation, McG, thinks special effects work best when they are a hybrid of CG and the classic technique, of building sets and making models. In this conversation, recorded at Stan Winston Studios, he points out ...READ»
The Super X Divertor sounds like some fantasy invention from a 1950s Popular Mechanics. But it's a real device that helps enable two eco-friendly processes: Generating zero carbon-footprint power, and eating up dangerous nuclear waste ...READ»
Phil Neches was founder, chief scientist, and vice president of Teradata Corp., which applied parallel processing to relational databases. After Teradata was acquired by NCR, which was then acquired by AT&T, Neches served a number of ...READ»
Second lesson from PUSH 2007:
The energy problem is bigger than you thought.
James Kakalios is famous (well, anyway, he's the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question) for calculating the force needed to actually "leap over the Empire ...READ»
