Category Archives: Weird Science

San Francisco Judge Shoots Down Proposition 8

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 4, 2010
Source: WSJ San Francisco federal judge Vaughn Walker has shot down California’s Proposition 8, the initiative passed by voters in 2008 that banned same-sex marriage. Judge Walker said Proposition 8 violated the federal constitutional rights of gays and lesbians to marry the partners of their choice. Click here for the opinion.
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CERN: Big Bang machine sets power record

By Gideon Swift | Published: November 30, 2009
Scientists say the world’s largest atom smasher has broken the record for proton acceleration, sending beams of the particles at 1.18 trillion electron volts. A statement by the European Organization for Nuclear Research says the Large Hadron Collider eclipses the previous high, which was just short of 1 Tev at Fermilab outside Chicago. The latest [...]
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US scientist accused of trying to sell secrets to Israel

By Gideon Swift | Published: October 20, 2009
…Stewart David Nozette, who is credited with helping discover evidence of water on the moon and has been a leader in recent lunar exploration work, was arrested Monday and charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to communicate, deliver and transmit classified information, the Justice Department said. Nozette, 52, of Chevy Chase, Md., was expected [...]
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Terrorist suspect linked to ‘big bang’ facility

By Gideon Swift | Published: October 10, 2009
One of two men arrested in France on Thursday on suspicion of having links with an Islamist terrorist group was working as a researcher at the Cern “big bang” laboratory on the French-Swiss border, the nuclear research body said on Friday. The man, believed to be a French national of Algerian descent, was detained by [...]
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Rat Brain Robot

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 15, 2009
Something about this makes me sick to my stomach… This robot is controlled by the brain of a rat – making it the world’s first cyborg rodent.
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