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ALPHA Stores Antimatter Atoms Over a Quarter of an Hour – and Still Counting

By Guest PostJune 8, 2011Sciencealpha collaboration, anti atoms, antihydrogen atoms, antimatter atoms, atoms, atoms of antihydrogen, berkeley lab, CERN, geneva, joel fajans, jonathan wurtele, lasers, magnetic trap, matter antimatter asymmetry, properties of antihydrogen, switzerland, time to go for coffee

*Berkeley Lab physicists join with their international colleagues in reaching a new frontier in antimatter science*

The ALPHA Collaboration, an international team of scientists working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, has reported storing a total of 309 atoms of antihydrogen, some for up to 1,000 seconds (almost 17 minutes), with an indication of much longer storage time as well.

ALPHA announced in November, 2010, that they had succeeded in storing antimatter atoms for the first time ever, having captured 38 atoms of antihydrogen and storing each for a sixth of a second. In the weeks following, ALPHA continued to collect anti-atoms and hold them for longer and longer times. (more…)

Imagine: Material That If Scratched, You Can Quickly and Easily Fix Yourself, With Light Not Heat

By Guest PostApril 21, 2011Scienceabrasive environments, andrew lovinger, automobiles, christoph weder, mechanical properties, metallo supramolecular polymers, microstructure, molecular glue, napoleon complex, polymer, scientific concepts, self corrective healing process, stuart rowan, supramolecular, switzerland, united states, weak molecular interactions

*Discovery of self-corrective healing process for polymer detailed this week in the journal Nature*

Imagine you’re driving your own new car–or a rental car–and you need to park in a commercial garage. Maybe you’re going to work, visiting a mall or attending an event at a sports stadium, and you’re in a rush. Limited and small available spots and concrete pillars make parking a challenge. And it happens that day: you slightly misjudge a corner and you can hear the squeal as you scratch the side of your car–small scratches, but large anticipated repair costs.

Now imagine that that you can repair these unsightly scratches yourself–quickly, easily and inexpensively–or that you can go through a car wash that can detect these and other more minor scratches and fix them as the car goes through the washing garage. Fantasy. Not exactly. Not anymore. Not according to a new discovery detailed in the April 21 issue of the journal Nature, and depicted in a short video interview and simulation. (more…)

Switzerland Freezes Accounts of Mubarak and His Entourage

By PravdaFebruary 12, 2011Politicsassets, banks, circles, egyptian president, european country, freeze, hosni mubarak, lars knuchel, mubarak, president, revolt, switzerland, tunisia, zine al-abidine ben ali

Switzerland’s government moved to freeze any assets of Hosni Mubarak, Swiss officials said Friday.

The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs said it would freeze any assets in the country’s banks that might belong to the former Egyptian president or his family, without specifying how much money was involved or where it was. (more…)

Wikileaks to Unveil Secrets of Swiss Banks

By PravdaJanuary 17, 2011Culture, Politicsavoid taxation, bank julius baer, data discs, julian assange, rudolf elmer, Sweden, swiss banker, switzerland, uk, wikileaks

Rudolf Elmer, a former Swiss banker, has handed over two data discs containing sensitive details of the accounts of 2,000 prominent people to Julian Assange, the boss of Wikileaks.

Wikileaks has not yet published the data on its website, but Assange promised full disclosure once the data had been vetted. (more…)

Go Ask ALICE: Learning About the Big Bang

By Guest PostDecember 15, 20101 commentSciencea lead ion collider experiment, alice, bang, big, big bang, CERN, european organization for nuclear research, galaxies, geneva, john harris, Large Hadron Collider, lhc, particle accelerator, particles, planets, soup, stars, switzerland, universe, yale

Nearly 14 billion years ago, the universe began with a bang — a big one.

Scientists believe that the universe and everything within it began as an extremely hot, dense “soup” that eventually gave rise to galaxies, stars, planets and life and that continues to expand to this day.

Now scientists around the world are pushing back the frontiers of our understanding about the moment the universe was born using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a giant particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) near Geneva, Switzerland. (more…)

IBM Awards Powerful Computing System to University of Lugano for Research to Create Future Workload Optimized Systems

By Guest PostOctober 29, 2010Technologycomputer systems, data analytics, engineer, ibm, ibm power 755, ibm research, information technology, it, matthias kaiserswerth, multi core processors, performance of emerging workloads on multi cores, piero martinoli, poem, power 7 technology, sara lestage, shared university research, sur, switzerland, university of lugano, zurich

*IBM and University of Lugano to collaborate on multi-core technology research*

Switzerland and ARMONK, – 29 Oct 2010: Today IBM announced a Shared University Research (SUR) award in the form of a modern high-end server to the University of Lugano, Switzerland, to advance the design of future computer systems and applications for multi-core processors. The powerful new computer, an IBM Power 755, will be used to investigate how future computer systems can best be optimized as part of a three-year research collaboration with IBM Research – Zurich. (more…)

Time Machine Built in Europe, Russian Scientists Say

By PravdaAugust 7, 2010Science Fictionbig bang, black hole, center of the european council for nuclear research, CERN, closed time-like curve, energy, france protons, Galaxy, igor volovich, irina arefyeva, kip thorne 2008, Large Hadron Collider, lhc, physicist, russian physicists, science fiction, steklov, switzerland, time travel, universe, wormholes

Russian physicists seriously believe that the Large Hadron Collider can be used for time travel. However, it will only happen when it starts working at full capacity and stops breaking down. If earlier time travel was considered science fiction, now it suddenly turned into the favorite pet project of theoretical physicists. Renowned physicist Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology once said in one of his lectures:

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