First attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undergoing today, 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN’s new particle accelerator reaches a successful conclusion. Television coverage of the start-up is available through Eurovision.
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Scientists from the Cardiff Center for Astrobiology have developed a model showing that our solar system goes through the plane of the galaxy every 35-40 million years. This is accompanied by comets hurtling into the inner solar system, coinciding with mass life extinctions on Earth. The researchers estimate that we are now in one of the predicted collisions’ period.
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The project is based on a controversial theory that may gain traction in light of new findings described in a leaked NASA memo about the May 12 earthquake in China’s Sichuan province, when NASA caught early signs of China quake. The researchers hope to create a global network of roughly 20 satellites that would scan for telltale activity that some scientists (and old wives) say precedes large earthquakes.
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which is being built at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. When it will switch on in 2008, it will be the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate on particles proprieties.
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Ten questions driving the geological and planetary sciences were identified in a new report by the National Research Council.  Aimed at reflecting the major scientific issues facing earth science at the start of the 21st century, the questions represent where the field stands, how it arrived at this point, and where it may be headed.
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Is anybody else out there?  The answer to this old question is: probably yes !

If we assume that depending on the basis of life only certain window of conditions can support it (i.e. within certain range of temperature, gases composition, gravity, electromagnetic radiation, water …) it appears almost impossible to match them, but not so much if we take into account the universe scale.
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Brian Clegg, author of “The God effect”, explains that quantum entanglement is a strange feature of quantum physics, the science of the very small. It’s possible to link together two quantum particles – photons of light or atoms, for example – in a special way that makes them effectively two parts of the same entity. You can then separate them as far as you like, and a change in one is instantly reflected in the other.
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Scientists from the University of California (Santa Cruz) find possible proof detecting our cosmos as multiverse made of bubble universes with different physic laws.
 
According to A. Aguirre from the UCSC Department of Physics, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, which is radiation left over from the Big Bang, could have characteristics resulting from the existence of different universes.  CMB radiation is found throughout the universe. Many cosmologists study CMB radiation as a way to learn more about the Big Bang, the theoretical beginning of our universe.
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The team of mathematicians that first created the mathematics behind the “invisibility cloak” announced by physicists last October has now shown that the same technology could be used to generate an “electromagnetic wormhole.”

In the study, which is to appear in the Oct. 19 issue of Physical Review Letters, Allan Greenleaf, professor of mathematics at the University of Rochester (http://www.rochester.edu/), and his coauthors lay out a variation on the theme of cloaking. Their results open the possibility of building a sort of invisible tunnel between two points in space.
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