Queens University experts now have the chance to build something that few other research facilities can boast having – their very own nuclear material testing facility. Thanks to a $6.9-million grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the scientists will now be able to build a test reactor, in w... |
25 June 2009
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One aspect of the evolution from Internet Explorer 7 to Internet Explorer 8 is the introduction of accelerators. Designed to streamline mundane and repetitive actions performed via the browser, accelerators are an integral part of IE8, kicking functionality up a notch. The successor of IE7 does ship with a range of a... |
17 June 2009
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After constructions that lasted more than a decade and billions of dollars invested in the world's largest scientific experiment, physicists who are now operating the Large Hadron Collider have just realized that they don't really know how the entire system works, in all of its details. As a result, they sa... |
27 May 2009
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The study of subatomic particles is, as everyone knows, mostly conducted in particle accelerators, those huge devices that accelerate protons and electrons to nearly the speed of light, and then smash them together. The ensuing collision breaks the objects into their basic components, and physicists then spend an eno... |
13 April 2009
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