The team at CERN seems to have finally revived the Large Hadron Collider. Cross your fingers… [PopSci]

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President Obama on the Necessity of Science from White House on Vimeo.

National Lab Day, a new nationwide initiative “encouraging young people to be makers of things, not just consumers of things”, will be coming to you in May 2010, says President Obama. Look out for engineering students and professionals visiting your schools next year – it should mean another opportunity to get your hands dirty and participate in fun science-related activities!

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Dubai, a city that seems to look more and more like an amusement park these days, is planning to build what will be the world’s largest arch bridge in 2012. For more facts about this incredible project see this page.

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Sandy Hawkins is an acoustical engineer, which means he spends much of his time figuring out how to make useful sounds and to reduce unwanted ones. Lately Hawkins has received acclaim for his invention of the Lung Flute, a plastic tube that, when blown into, vibrates to the same frequency as the cilia responsible for clearing out our lungs (16Hz). This forces the tiny, hairlike cell parts to move in unison, thus loosening up congestion in the lungs. Video after jump. [PopSci]

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Core77, one of our favorite design blogs, recently featured some pretty impressive stair-climbing robots (the one above is from the Intelligent Robot Lab at the University of Tsukuba). For many more creative solutions to stairs, see this blog post.

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