A few days ago, CERN opened the Open Data portal, where the organizazion made available to anyone information on the experiments of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Now a collaboration between the University of Oxford, the New York University, The University of Birmingham, the Zooniverse project and CERN’s ATLAS experiment led to the creation of the Higgs Hunters project that allows anyone to collaborate on a research on the Higgs boson.
The novel “Transcendence” by Charles Sheffield was published for the first time in 1992. It’s the third book of the Heritage universe and is the sequel to “Divengence” It’s also part of the omnibus titled “Transvergence”.
The fierce Zardalu are back but no one believes it. Not even the testimony of a respected scientist such as Darya Lang, that of a Councilor and that of an android who can’t lie, are not considered. They need to find hard evidence so the heterogeneous group who stumbled into a group of Zardalu in stasis intends to find out where they ended up.
Nobody ever knew the location of Genizee, the Zardalu homeworld, and over the millennia passed since they were considered extinct no one found it. But no one had as much information as the group that met them and thanks to the new data they locate the area of space where to find the planet. The problem is that it’s a large space-time anomaly.
On November 11, 2014 the videogame “Assassin’s Creed Unity” was released to the market. It’s one of the most anticipated titles of the year, with the launch in North America first and in the following days in the other continents. This new chapter in a series developed by Ubisoft and began in 2007 is set in Paris during the French Revolution and includes new expected features but also various problems that angered many fans. The discontent was such that apologies and promises of compensation came from Ubisoft.
An article just published in the journal “Nature” describes the discovery of a kind of barrier placed in the Van Allen belts, about 11,600 km (aboyt 7,200 miles) above the surface, which prevents very high speed and energy electrons from reaching the Earth. This discovery was made using the Van Allen space probes, launched in August 2012 precisely to study those belts.
The novel “Stardance” by Spider and Jeanne Robinson was published for the first time in 1979.
Shara Drummond wanted be a dancer. She’s very talented but dancers must be petite and thin and Shara is neither. Her dream seems vanished, instead she decides to create the Stardance, a new form of dance in weightlessness and truly three-dimensional.
In order to develop her idea, Shara does everything to be able to work on a space station. There, the microgravity allows her to try movements totally impossible on Earth. However, her prolonged efforts in that environment cause serious risks to her health but they become unimportant when aliens are spotted.
