SCIENCE+News



We can add science news here during 2010. I've kept the most interesting items from past years. **

**Are green Shopping Bags really Green?** 20081011 Green bags are made of the same plastic (polyethylene) as the throw away bags! So, what happens when your green shopping bags die? Can you recycle them? Are they friendlier to the environment than single use polyethylene bags?

**The Large Hadron Collider is ONLINE** 20080911 Read about the newest BIGGEST science machine on earth. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=scientists-launch-huge-particl
 * //And, no, it won't destroy the world!//** Even if all the energy in a LHC collision was converted into a blackhole, (we use e = mc2 to calculate that), the black hole would weigh only 100 trillionth of a gram and be a trillionth the size of a proton. The rate at which a black hole evaporates depends on its size. This little one would last less time then the shortest time physically possible for anything to last. Even if it could survive, our tiny black hole would take 3 billion years to suck in one gram of matter! The earth is not at risk from this little fella. (picture from Sciam.com)

**Science helps Olympic Swimmers** 20080813 Read about the science of the LZR helping swimmers to smash olympic swimming records!

**Recycle your old computer bits** 20080727 Read about it here http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticleAsOnePage.aspx?id=103807

**Volcanoes trigger mass undersea sea extinction** 20080718 Read about it here http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/07/17/2306220.htm?site=science&topic=latest

These links are to reliable official UN / WHO sources . ..

 * What is Influenza A(H1N1)?** Click here
 * What is a Pandemic?** Click here
 * What can I do?** Click here
 * Latest NEWS** Click here Please note that WHO is no longer updating daily news on H1N1. This link now connects to the Global Disease Outbreak page.