Researchers announced Friday that they detected what is believed to be the first glimpse of the Higgs boson, or God particle.
The findings come from two teams in Geneva, at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, the European particle physics lab where the world's most powerful atom smasher is.
Russia, which boycotted the Nobel ceremony on Friday, suggested that the Norwegian Committee should award a peace prize to Julian Assange. In an unusual move, Moscow called upon Rights group to rally support for the whistle-blower. Meanwhile, snubbing the communist China, the Nobel Prize committee has called for the immediate release of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
Cutting federal spending in 2011 could tip the U.S. economy back into a recession, just as it almost did in 1937. On the contrary, if the federal government spent more on infrastructure/public works projects it would create many jobs, and achieve great things, like the construction of the Empire State Building in the 1930s and 1 World Trade Center today.
An organized attack in Guatemala City has claimed the life of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral, who died early Saturday after unknown assailants in vehicles attacked the car he was riding in together with concert promoter Henry Farina as they traveled from his hotel to the airport, police said, according to La Prensa Libre.
In an article posted in the editorial of Rolling Stone magazine, Al Gore has come down heavily on President Barack Obama's approach in avoiding a climate crisis. Article titled, Climate of Denial: Can science and the truth withstand the merchants of poison?, says President Obama has thus far failed to use the bully pulpit to make the case for bold action on climate change.
Ai Weiwei, arrested last April on charges of tax evasion, was released Wednesday on bail.
The White House said on Monday it was disappointed Nobel Prize winner Peter Diamond's nomination to be a Federal Reserve governor was thwarted by partisan obstructionism and promised to name a new candidate soon.
The White House said on Monday it was disappointed Nobel Prize winner Peter Diamond's nomination to be a Federal Reserve governor was thwarted by partisan obstructionism and promised to name a new candidate soon.
The Huffington Post is reporting that Jersey Shore star Nicole Snooki Polizzi was paid $32,000 to speak at Rutgers University.
A look at what radioactivity is, and is not.
Leslie Valiant, professor of computer science and applied mathematics at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has received the 2010 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his contributions to the theory of computation.
Mexican tycoon, Carlos Slim Helú, who has been at various times named the world's richest man, has inaugurated a new museum to house his exquisite art collection by renowned French masters.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Tuesday announced that it has received valid nominations of 241 different individuals and organizations for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011.
Sunday night's Grammy Award show may have shocked a few viewers. While Arcade Fire winning the award for Album of the Year, was definitely a surprise, the night's biggest upset was Esperanza Spalding taking home the award for Best New Artist.
U.S.-Egyptian scientist Ahmed Zewail once received a medal from President Hosni Mubarak. Now, he says, it's time for the Egyptian leader to heed the demonstrators clamouring for his departure.
Accused of some of the highly stigmatized felonies, will Assange or WikiLeaks still be considered for Nobel Prize? However, Al Gore, who won the 2007 Peace award, did have a similar sexual assualt taint.
Analyst Kim Caughey Forrest says Verizon's record sale of iPhones today was old news before it even happened.
Norway MP, Snorre Valen nominates Julian Assange's whistleblower website WikiLeaks for Noble Prize and hails it for contribution to Tunisian Revolution and the following Arab protests.
As the Egyptian protest enters its ninth day in Cairo the organizers have announced an indefinite general strike and called for a march of a million in the Egyptian capital on Tuesday. There is a mounting pressure on the president Hosni Mubark to relinquish the post and pave way for new leadership.
Quoting observers of the Nobel Prize, an international news agency has reported that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be one among the nominations this year.
Belgium's economy minister said on Wednesday that heavy state involvement in emerging market economies is unsustainable, and it urged China to open sectors up to foreign companies.
Facebook CEO and Time's Person of the Year Mark Zuckerberg received some private financial consultation on How to raise funds? -- courtesy, a hacker who infiltrated the CEO's fan page.
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