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The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists’ wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth?

The safety of the collider, which will generate energies seven times higher than its most powerful rival, at Fermilab near Chicago, has been debated for years. The physicist Martin Rees has estimated the chance of an accelerator producing a global…

Observations from multiple instruments and even multiple telescopes were pooled together to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. This week’s cosmic pictures serve to show what can happen when telescopes team up. The good stuff included a wide shot of starbirth in our home galaxy, a second look at a supernova’s

To get the full lineups for the Spitzer teams, check out the GLIMPSE and MIPSGAL Web sites. The team behind the Chandra W28 study includes Jonathan Keohane (Hampden-Sydney College), Jeonghee Rho (Spitzer Science Center), Thomas…

Boxing historian David Martinez picks what are in his opinion the five best Mexican fighters in the history of the sport.

In April 1977, in a non-title fight against Mexican counterpart Alfonso Zamora, both fighters came into that bout with an amazing combined ring record of 74 wins and no losses, and with all of the combined wins by knockout but one. Zarate was…

A fossil animal locked in Lebanese limestone has been shown to be an extremely precious discovery - a snake with two legs.
The specimen sheds new light on the evolution from legged reptiles to modern day snakes.

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What was lost tens of millions of years ago is now found.

emp_load.getEmpEmbeddedParams(”emp_7341130″); Researchers at the European Light Source (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, used intense X-rays to confirm that a creature imprinted on a rock, and with one visible leg, had…

Today tradition permits women to pop the question to men. This custom has dubious origins….wedlock comes with financial obligation. The bottom line is: if you’re married, she can have half your money. Maybe more….all this sniggering is really just to cover up the fact that, in truth, all proposals are made by women.

What a bizarre article. If you both want to get married, then do it. If either of you don't want to, then obviously it's a bad idea. As for men risking 'the woman' divorcing him and taking half his money, you do realise that it…

Here are some of the most common swindles out there today, at home and abroad – don’t let them get you down.

At Gare du Nord I stood bemused before the state of the art touch screen ticket machine, when a smartly dressed man said ‘where do you want to go?’ ‘Charles de Gaulle Airport ‘ I replied and he touched the screen like and expert…

In Nepal (AP)- The leader of a black market kidney ring is being sent back to India. Amit Kumar is wanted for removing hundreds of kidneys from poor laborers often at gunpoint.

Kumar's clinics spanned over 5 states, one of which was raided in January. It was discovered that this operation involved four doctors, several hospitals,  twenty-four nurses, paramedics and a car laboratory.