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Construction on the tunnels that will be used to dump the counter-circulating beams in an undated photo courtesy of CERN. The world's most powerful particle accelerator, aimed at unlocking secrets of the universe, will be launched on September 10, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Thursday. (Handout/Reuters)

Sept launch for bid to crack secrets of universe

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The world's most powerful particle accelerator, aimed at unlocking secrets of the universe, will be launched on September 10, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Thursday.

  • In this undated photo released by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008, one of the two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922 is seen during preparations for a DNA test in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian scientists are carrying out DNA tests on two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun to determine whether they are the young pharaoh's children, Egyptian antiquity authorities said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Supreme Council of Antiquities)
    Egypt to test fetuses for Tutankhamun family tree Wed Aug 6, 11:19 AM ET

    CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian scientists are doing DNA tests on stillborn children found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the hope of identifying their mother and grandmother, who may be the powerful queen Nefertiti, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Wednesday.

  • Polish palaeontologist Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki holds up an excavated bone that will now need to be identified, in a brickyard in Lipie Slaskie, near Lisowice, southern Poland, August 5, 2008. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters)
    Poland to open museum for cousin of T-Rex Wed Aug 6, 11:23 AM ET

    LISOWICE, Poland (Reuters) - Poland opens a museum on Thursday to exhibit the remains of a previously unknown dinosaur, an ancestor of Tyrannosaurus Rex, which have attracted scientists from around the world to this small southern village.

  • A Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), also known as the corpse flower, is seen in full bloom at the Eden Project in southwest England in this handout picture released by the Eden Project February 5, 2007. (Steve Bedser/Eden Project/Reuters)
    Giant smelly flower puts on sex show in Belgium Thu Aug 7, 12:17 PM ET

    MEISE, Belgium (Reuters) - It's one of the world's largest flowers, it stinks of rotting meat or rancid cheese and looks very much like a giant penis.

  • A view shows the completed electronic eye camera, mounted on printed circuit board (green) for connection to a computer for image acquisition in this undated handout image. (Beckman Institute, University of Illinois/Handout/Reuters)
    Eye spy: U.S. scientists develop eye-shaped camera Wed Aug 6, 2:05 PM ET

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Borrowing one of nature's best designs, U.S. scientists have built an eye-shaped camera using standard sensor materials and say it could improve the performance of digital cameras and enhance imaging of the human body.

  • Skin cells produce library of diseased stem cells Thu Aug 7, 12:01 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. stem cell experts have produced a library of the powerful cells using ordinary skin and bone marrow cells from patients, and said on Thursday they would share them freely with other researchers.

  • Researchers compile West Nile gene "dictionary" Wed Aug 6, 6:18 PM ET

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Researchers have traced all of the proteins and enzymes used by the West Nile virus to infect cells, and found 305 genes that could serve as targets for treatments.

  • Even viruses get sick Wed Aug 6, 1:37 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - Even viruses can go down with a viral infection, French scientists reported on Wednesday, in a discovery that may help explain how they swap genes and evolve so rapidly.

  • File photo shows stray dogs resting in the warm spring sunshine in Red Square in Moscow March 29, 2007. (Denis Sinyakov/Reuters)
    Fido's not just yawning -- he's empathizing Tue Aug 5, 7:11 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - Dogs find human yawns contagious, suggesting they have a rudimentary capacity for empathy, British scientists said on Wednesday.

  • 'Hanny's Voorwerp', a green blob of gas (center] believed to be a 'light echo' from the bright, stormy centre of a distant galaxy that has now gone dim, in an undated image. (Dan Smith, Peter Herbert, Matt Jarvis and the ING/Handout/Reuters)
    Amateur astronomer spies gassy "cosmic ghost" Tue Aug 5, 3:51 PM ET

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Dutch primary school teacher and amateur astronomer has discovered what some are calling a "cosmic ghost," a strange, gaseous object with a hole in the middle that may represent a new class of astronomical object.

  • A view combining more than 400 images taken during the first several weeks after NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander arrived on an arctic plain in an image courtesy of NASA. The full-circle panorama in approximately true color shows the polygonal patterning of ground in the landing area, similar to patterns in permafrost areas on Earth. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
    NASA says Mars toxin find doesn't rule out life Tue Aug 5, 4:40 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA scientists on Tuesday said the surprise discovery of a sometimes toxic chemical on the surface of Mars does not diminish the possibility of finding microbial life on the Red Planet and asked for patience while they study soil samples further.

  • The USS Houston is seen Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, June 24, 2008. (U.S. Navy/Handout/Reuters)
    U.S. says submarine leaked radiation in 3 Japan ports Thu Aug 7, 6:55 AM ET

    TOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine which has steadily been leaking a small amount of radiation for over two years stopped at three Japanese ports, as well as Guam and Pearl Harbor, the United States and Japan said on Thursday.

  • A man smokes a cigarette in front of a pub in Bensheim early July 30, 2008. (Alex Grimm/Reuters)
    Study shows why once is enough to hook some smokers Tue Aug 5, 5:06 PM ET

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - For some people, one cigarette is all it takes to become hooked on nicotine, while others are repelled by it.

  • Bernann McKinney from the U.S. holds one of five cloned puppies, the offspring of her late bullterrier Booger, upon her first meeting with them at the Seoul National University Hospital for Animals in Seoul, August 5, 2008. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters)
    Booger the pit bull is back! All five of him... Tue Aug 5, 6:36 AM ET

    SEOUL (Reuters) - The loss of Booger the pit bull terrier was almost more than Bernann McKinney could bear.

  • A boy suffering from HIV/AIDS receives a vaccine 'Pneumovax' during a vaccination programme organised by non-government organisation 'Sngobadho' (Together) at their office on the outskirts of the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri August 5, 2008. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)
    New AIDS vaccine blueprint calls for more focus Tue Aug 5, 7:37 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AIDS vaccine researchers should move to smaller, more focused trials and dump any vaccines that do not show strong promise, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative said on Tuesday.