Новости за 14.02.2012

CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics research and the largest facility like it in the world, announced an increase in the power of its particle accelerators, the BBC reported. After increasing its blasting power from 3.5 teraelectron volts (TeVs) to 4 TeVs (1 teraelectron volt = 1.60217646 × 10^-7 joules) the Large Hadron Collider will operate at that level for another 12 months.

The head of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today paid tribute to the Danish artist and civil engineer Erik Reitzel, who has died at the age of 71, saying his art reinforced the Organization’s “commitment to serve the common good.”

One out of every five Europeans dies from environmentally-related diseases, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) warned today, noting that poorer citizens are more exposed to such risks than their wealthier peers.

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