• Apr
  • 25

Gossip Girl’s Online Success Is a Preview of TV 3.0

CW’s melodramatic teen soap has proven the power of the internet audience

This isn't the first show to find internet success — Lost and The Office are big download hits, too. But this is the first show that seems to have succeeded primarily on the internet. There's something about the combination of the…

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  • Apr
  • 23

Recreating the early universe

The Large Hadron Collider, the largest scientific instrument ever built, examines the universes tiniest pieces of matter to discover the origins and makeup of our Universe. This illustrated slideshow describes how the collider works and details each of the six major experiments created to leverage the collider’s enormous and unique power.

Why is there something instead of nothing? Or, more specifically, why do we live in a universe that is composed almost solely of matter, rather than anti-matter? If the amounts of matter and anti-matter were equal, all particles would be…

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  • Feb
  • 11

Little White (Space) lies:

Opposition to the high-speed, no-fee “white space” plan is picking up steam, as opponents turn to op-ed pages to spread their message of FUD. Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for a fair test of this promising tech.

The Federal Communications Commission is indeed testing devices that would pick up temporarily unused television spectrum, or "white space," for low power use by unlicensed devices. Such receivers could enable entire…

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