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The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland has generated a lot of news of late, e.g. the announcement that a team had found what it believes to be a particle that traveled faster than he speed of light, an actual new particle, and of course the seemingly never-ending storyline associated with the hopeful discovery of the elusive Higgs Boson, now a physicist not associated with the project, has built a scale model replica of the ATLAS experiment; a particle detector that will likely serve as ground zero should the so-called “god particle” ever be observed.

a physicist with the Niels Bohr Institute took almost thirty five hours to build and cost two thousand Euros (paid for by the high energy physics group at the university). The point of building the replica, he says, is to incite interest in physics. Plus, no doubt, it was sort of fun.

The real ATLAS project is 44 meters long and 22 meters wide and weighs 7000 tonnes. Mehlhase’s model, at approximately 1:50 scale is approximately 1 meter long by a half meter wide. And while the real deal has millions of parts, the model has 9500 pieces, mostly LEGO blocks.

A custom MIG-welded steel chassisA 450 Watt electric motorTwo 7 Ah 12 Volt batteriesA 5DOF intertial measurement unitThe OSMC H-bridgeAn ATmega328P microcontroller

operates much like a Segway -- you lean forward to accelerate, and lean back to brake

holding in my right hand (in the video at the bottom) is a "kill switch" -- if I let go of it, the unicycle deactivates the motor,

Since the 1980s, scientists have been synthesizing newer allotropes, including carbon nanotubes, graphene, and fullerenes, all of which have had a significant scientific and technological impact.

scientists have been investigating a wide variety of new – and sometimes elusive – carbon allotropes

scientists also noted that T-carbon could have astronomical implications as a potential component of interstellar dust and carbon exoplanets

calculated that another material, lonsdaleite (also called hexagonal diamond, since it’s made of carbon and is similar to diamond), is even stronger than w-BN and 58 percent stronger than diamond

marks the first case where a material exceeds diamond in strength under the same loading conditions

Normal compressive pressures under indenters cause the materials to undergo a structural phase transformation into stronger structures, conserving volume by flipping their atomic bonds

By applying extreme pressure to compress and flatten carbon nanotubes, scientists have discovered that they can create a new carbon polymer that simulations show is hard enough to crack diamond

directly compressing carbon nanotube bundles to design and to synthesize novel metastable carbon allotropes

applying pressure to some of these carbon allotropes can change the bonds, resulting in different forms of carbon with novel electronic and mechanical properties

Humans can quickly detect photo fraud, maintains Karsch. They can do so in spotting lighting inconsistencies in a doctored photograph

In their computer program, a user is asked to select light sources in the picture.

An algorithm recreates the 3-D geometry and lighting of the scene and the artificial object is inserted into its new environment

Hubble Space Telescope has crossed a major milestone, accumulating 10,000 science papers based on its observations

After 21 years

it's actually in the best shape of its life

CERN scientists may have already found evidence of the existence of the elusive Higgs boson

scientist from the Cern particle physics laboratory has told the BBC he expects to see "the first glimpse" of the Higgs boson next week

Tuesday, when two Large Hadron Collider teams would reveal the results of their research, highlighting ten candidates that show evidence of Higgs

cautioned that LHC's ATLAS and CMS experiments have not accrued enough data to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the Higgs boson, an as yet undetected particle thought to give all other particles their mass

particle is thought to have a mass of between 114 and 185 gigaelectronvolts, or GeVs. (One GeV is equivalent to the mass of a proton, the positively charged particle in the nucleus of an atom

Tantalizing data spikes between 120 and 140 GeV suggest that the Higgs mass might lie in that range, the LHC teams reported in July

This year's second total lunar eclipse on Saturday, Dec. 10, will offer a rare chance to see a strange celestial sight traditionally thought impossible

For most places in the United States and Canada, there will be a chance to observe an unusual effect

one that celestial geometry seems to dictate can't happen

North America's biggest dinosaur has been unearthed

it once called New Mexico home.

titanosaurus was documented in a recent issue of Acta Palaeontologica Polonica published on Dec. 6.

Parrots have neither lips nor teeth, but that doesn't stop them from producing dead-on imitations of human speech

like humans, parrots use their tongues to form sounds

scientists took x-ray movies of monk parakeets

Finding it would be an enormous scientific breakthrough for the physics world and would help explain why different particles have different masses

That is because the particle itself is thought to give mass to other particles

any firm discovery will have to wait until next year

New research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort

Japan, recently demonstrated that through a person's visual cortex, researchers could use decoded functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to induce brain activity patterns to match a previously known target state and thereby improve performance on visual tasks

Think of a person watching a computer screen and