After making the country’s first spacewalk, three Chinese astronauts returned safely to Earth on Sunday. They landed in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region.
Mission commander Zhai Zhigang, 41, was watched on television by countless millions around the globe as his 15-minute spacewalk vaulted China into ranks of the United States and the former Soviet Union as the [...]

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I have just gone through the press release from CERN. They said that investigations at CERN following a large helium leak into sector 3-4 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel have indicated that the most likely cause of the incident was a faulty electrical connection between two of the accelerator’s magnets. Before a full [...]

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Today is 10th september,2008 and LHC has started up. Beam is in the LHC now. So CERN is really hot. Two blogs have started live bloging to keep us updated - Cosmic Variance and symmetry breaking . You can also get updates in the blog of  Tommaso Dorigo. Here is the plan for tomorrow . Best of luck for LHC.

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Today String 2008 is going to start at CERN. This conferense will end on 23rd of this month. Last year it was held in Madrid, Spain. This conference is the largest and most important one on String Theory. Almost 400 physicists are participating. Here is the scheduale. CERN will provide live webcast . Lubos Motl [...]

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Its a hot news now that famous theoretical physicist and the writer of award winning book ” Brief History of Time” Stephen Hawking may leave Cambridge. He has received an offer from Canadian research institute ” Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics” where he would join recently appointed director Neil Turok. Hawking may visit perimeter next [...]

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