LA Easter Quake: 7.2 on scale
Mexico border on Sunday shook high-rises in downtown Los Angeles and San Diego and was felt across Southern California and Arizona. Caltech and the U.S. Geological Survey says the 7.2 magnitude quake struck Sunday at 3:40 p.m. in Baja California, Mexico, about 19 miles southeast of Mexicali, at an area that has been hit by [...]
Large Hadron Collider succesfully smashed protons
After 16 years and $10 billion—and a long morning of electrical groaning and sweating—there was joy in the meadows and tunnels of the Swiss-French countryside Tuesday: the world’s biggest physics machine, the Large Hadron Collider, finally began to collide subatomic particles.
The $10-billion structure at Geneva collides particles at three times previous energy levels. It [...]
