Where is the Large Hadron Collider set up?

South Korean Min Kyu Choi, 20, from London’s Royal College of Art won the prestigious award for designing a sleek three-pin plug, with the phase and negative terminals connected to a rotary base. When folded, the plug is less than a centimetre thick. His earlier designs include a foldable suitcase and an environment-friendly mosquito killer which uses solar powered UV light and a carnivorous plant.

LHC is a particle accelerator which the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) used to collide beams of subatomic particles called ‘hadrons’, at a record collision energy of 7 tera-electron volts. Conducted on March 30, 2010, this scientific experiment is expected to demystify the creation of the universe and solve many hitherto unanswered questions of particle physics.

Pritzker Prize is the highest honour in architecture and is considered equivalent to the Nobel Prize. Given by the Hyatt Foundation in Chicago, the award for 2010, carrying a grant of $100,000, was won by Japanese duo Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the Tokyo–based Architecture Firm SANAA, for designing the sprawling Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The 115 m ArcelorMittal Orbit, named after steel magnate Lakshmi Niwas Mittal’s company, will be a massive web of spiralling steel in the form of the five Olympic rings. It will be 22 metres taller than the Statue of Liberty and will form the backdrop to the 2012 Olympic Games Stadium in East London. After the Olympics, it will continue to be an ‘iconic cultural legacy’ of the Games and offer visitors panoramic views of London. It has been designed by internationally renowned, Mumbai-born artist Anish Kapoor.

StatsMonkey is an Automated Games Stories Project initiated by the US Medill School of Journalism and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University through the Centre for Innovation in Technology, Media and Journalism. It constitutes search algorithms that are programmed to look out for statistical models to identify the essence of the story, the key plays and players. The system includes a library of narrative arcs that describe the main dynamics of the games, from which a decision tree selects the appropriate narrative arc. This then determines the main components of the game story that are put together in a cohesive and compelling manner to produce the rough sketch of a sports article.

It encompasses the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects. While numismatists are often characterised as students or collectors of coins, the discipline also includes the broader study of money and other payment media used to resolve debts and the exchange of goods.

The IEEE 1394 interface is a serial bus interface standard for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer, frequently used by personal computers, as well as in digital audio, digital video, automotive, and aeronautics applications. The interface is also known by the brand names of FireWire (Apple).

Voice over Internet Protocol is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over IP networks such as the internet or other packet-switched networks.

These three women form part of the crew of seven astronauts on board the Discovery space shuttle that blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre on April 5, 2010, on a 13-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). ISS orbits the earth at a height of about 400km.

The Convention on Wetlands, signed in Ramsar town in Iran in 1971, provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. At present there are 158 signatories with 1822 wetland sites like Chilka lake and Vembanad lake designated for inclusion in the Ramsar list of Wetlands of International Importance. These sites are known as 'Ramsar Sites'.