hysicists are demanding a £4.4bn, 31-kilometre tunnel if they are to explain the mysteries of the universe
Sunday, 18 July 2010
After decades of bending atoms around giant rings and smashing them apart in search of the secrets of the universe, scientists at Cern, the European particle physics laboratory outside Geneva, are reviving a 1960s technology and [...]
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Forget the Large Hadron Collider. All hail Cern’s new, straight-line atom smasher
11 November, 2010 – 00:09
Irene Khan: Banged to rights
10 November, 2010 – 23:52
Just when Amnesty International might have been addressing prisoner abuse, it turned its focus elsewhere. Its out-going boss admits to a sense of failure. Paul Rodgers meets Irene Khan
Sunday, 11 October 2009
The Place of the Ravens, 30km west of Baghdad, has long been of interest to civil liberties groups. The largest prison in Iraq, [...]
Indigenous tribes more vulnerable in swine flu outbreaks
10 November, 2010 – 23:45
Pandemic expected to hit remote, poverty-stricken communities far harder than wealthy Westerners
Sunday, 11 October 2009
The only road to St Theresa Point in north-eastern Manitoba is made of ice and lasts just two months. The remote community’s 3,200 people, most of them Cree Indians, are squeezed into 530 homes, more than half of them without running [...]
Billions wasted on swine flu pandemic that never came
10 November, 2010 – 23:29
How did the World Health Organisation get its prediction of a 7.5 million death toll so wrong?
By Paul Rodgers and Smitha Mundasad
Sunday, 16 May 2010
The spectre of plague stalked the world last year with its constant companion, fear. Schools and stadiums were closed in Mexico, tourists from Egypt to Singapore were quarantined, and the surgical [...]
Potash bid drags BHP into Saharan fight
10 November, 2010 – 23:20
By Mark Leftly and Paul Rodgers
Sunday, 22 August 2010
BHP Billiton, the $200bn mining company, will tomorrow find itself in the middle of a massive geopolitical independence row due to its hostile takeover of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan.
Marius Kloppers, the chief executive of FTSE 100 stalwart BHP, is taking a $39bn offer for Canadian [...]
Australia faces worst plague of locusts in 75 years
10 November, 2010 – 23:06
Ideal breeding conditions for grasshoppersare expected to cost farmers billions
Sunday, 26 September 2010
Australia’s Darling river is running with water again after a drought in the middle of the decade reduced it to a trickle. But the rains feeding the continent’s fourth-longest river are not the undiluted good news you might expect. For the cloudbursts also [...]
Panasonic’s vision of the future is in 3D – and all shades of green
10 November, 2010 – 22:29
The Japanese giant wants to sell us its hi-tech stereoscopic TV screens, but its heart lies in its eco principles – and the humble battery
Sunday, 12 September 2010
The acrobat was performing the Spanish web, winding down from the ceiling on a red ribbon in a move many Britons will remember from an advert promoting BBC1. [...]
Ten years on, and still the brightest light in space
10 November, 2010 – 22:14
The International Space Station flies over the UK tonight, so keep your eyes peeled
Sunday, 7 November 2010
The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever built, which has some critics wondering if it is worth $100bn
If you look to the heavens between sunset and moonrise tonight, at 6.20pm in London, the brightest object you’ll [...]
Millions facing famine in Ethiopia as rains fail
30 August, 2009 – 00:00
International aid agencies fear that the levels of death and starvation last seen 24 years ago are set to return
The spectre of famine has returned to the Horn of Africa nearly a quarter of a century after the world’s pop stars gathered to banish it at Live Aid, raising £150m for relief efforts in 1985. [...]
The secret life of sperm is unlocked
2 August, 2009 – 00:00
Infertile couples may be spared years of fruitless treatment with the discovery that the human egg can read the father’s genetic key and screen out failures
Thousands of infertile couples could be spared the pain, anguish and expense of fruitless IVF treatments, thanks to the discovery of a lock-and-key mechanism between sperm and egg cells.
The research [...]
