Ian O'Neill
LHC Doomsday Lawsuit Finally Dismissed by Hawaii Judge
[/caption]It's official, the LHC lawsuit has been dismissed. After seven months of hype, media frenzy and hysteria about the non-existent…
China’s First Spacewalk a Success (Video)
[/caption]It's official, China has become the third nation to successfully carry out a spacewalk in Earth orbit. Fighter pilot Zhai…
Astrophysicist’s South Pole Death Remains a Mystery After Eight Years
[/caption]In May 2000, Australian astrophysicist Dr Rodney David Marks died from acute methanol poisoning whilst stationed at the US Amundsen-Scott…
Solar System’s Protective Shield is Weakening; Solar Wind Velocity at Record Low
[/caption] Solar wind output is at its lowest since accurate records began 50 years ago. This finding comes from the…
Really Bad News: LHC to be Switched Off Until Spring 2009
[/caption]First there was a glitch with one of the huge 30-tonne transformers causing a delay of a few days, then…
NASA Uses 90 Rubber Ducks to Study Global Warming
[/caption]NASA scientists have dropped 90 yellow rubber ducks into holes in Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier in an attempt to understand why…
Solar Cycle 24 Sunspots Finally Say “Hello!”
[/caption] After an extended period of calm for Solar Cycle 24, a cluster of sunspots have appeared on the disk…
Helium Leak Forces LHC Shutdown for at Least Two Months
[/caption] It's this sort of news I really did not want to wake up to. At 0927 GMT Friday morning,…
Transformer Glitch Halts LHC Operations
[/caption]According to reports, only a day after the first successful circulation of protons in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) last…
“Eight Minutes of Terror”: Solar Physicists Find a Supersonic Way to See the Transition Region
[/caption] Solar physicists will have the unprecedented opportunity to peer inside one of the most mysterious regions in the Sun's…