Do neutrinos really travel faster than light?

A recent experiment suggested that neutrinos may be able to travel faster than light.  The scientists who conducted the experiment did not believe the result, but were unable to find an error with the experiment.
 

Sydney shines on Facebook's 'most social' airports list

Facebook has issued a list of the 25 'most social' airports in the world. The correlation with official list of the world's busiest airports isn't as strong as you might expect, so what's going on?
 

CERN scientists may have seen Higgs boson on 7-22-2011

The Higgs boson is being diligently tracked down at the European particle physics laboratory called the Large Hadron Collider. On Friday, the LHC researchers announced they saw some funny looking bumps in their data that might be a sign of the particle.
 

Eating olive oil reduces stroke risk

A June 2011 study published in the journal Neurology has found that eating olive oil cuts the risk of strokes.
 

Google's Chromebook: Notebook as a service?

Google has revealed the first production Chromebooks - notebooks running Chrome OS - along with a leasing plan that includes remote management tools, support and more for as little as $US20 per month.
 

Google's Street View Wi-Fi cleanup completed months ago

Google has used Privacy Awareness Week to reveal it completed the deletion of Australian Wi-Fi payload data 'mistakenly' collected by its Street View cars as long ago as February.
 

Europeans may have found planet slightly larger than Earth

A team of astronomers from France, Germany, Portugal, and Switzerland has found a planetary system around the star HD 10180, which is only 127 light-years from Earth. The system is thought to contain a planet that is only 1.4 times larger than Earth.  
 

BlackBerry eBay app arrives in Australia (and elsewhere)

The official BlackBerry app for eBay has been released in Australia and five other countries, and has come out of beta in North America.
 

The Large Hadron Collider WORKS!

In the past few minutes, CERN has reported successful collisions at 7 TeV.
 

CERN sets first particle collision date

Officials at CERN have announced the date in which the beginning of the physics program will begin at the Large Hadron Collider. In other words, the first collisions of two oppositely-directed particle beams with energies of 3.5 TeV per beam will be attempted, for a combined energy of 7 tera-electron volts (TeV).