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Medieval monks wrote over a copy of an ancient star catalog. Now, a particle accelerator is revealing the long-lost original text

A little more than a thousand years ago, monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert removed Western ...
Scientific American

Lost ancient Greek star catalog decoded by particle accelerator

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...
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‘Birth of science’: Particle accelerator decodes ancient Greek star map hidden in text

Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...
Greek City Times

Lost Ancient Greek Star Map Decoded by Particle Accelerator

Scientists have successfully decoded portions of a long-lost star catalog created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, ...
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It May Be Safe to Nuke an Earthbound Asteroid After All, Simulation Suggests

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

Scientists Deciphered Humanity’s Earliest Star Map. It Had Literally Been Erased From History.

Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the ...

Armageddon was RIGHT! Simulation confirms we could nuke an asteroid if it was heading for Earth

Armageddon might not have a reputation as a scientifically accurate film. But scientists now say the Hollywood blockbuster ...

Physicists Converted Lead Into Gold - Here's How

Turning lead into gold famously used to be the goal of ancient alchemists, but their modern counterparts have actually ...
The Debrief

Hidden for Centuries, “Lost” Portions of a Mysterious Ancient Star Map Have Been Revealed Using X-Rays

SLAC National Accelerator Lab researchers have revealed hidden references to an ancient “star map” in a centuries-old document.

World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider — CERN's accelerator ...

A new heat exchange system between the LHC and the French town of Ferney-Voltaire is directing waste heat energy from CERN's accelerator to warm thousands of homes and businesses.

AI streamlines deluge of data from particle collisions

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a novel artificial ...