The world’s most powerful physics experiment is ready to be powered up in the Franco-Swiss border on Sep 10 2008. Scientists hope it will turn up many surprises about the universe and its origins — but reject suggestions it will bring the end of the world.

CERN, or the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of leading centres for scientific research. It was founded in 1954 and now has 20 members. The most well-known scientific instrument at CERN is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The experiment being conducted involves using the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, by colliding the two beams at very high energy.

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These 10 Powerful Modern Women Leaders represented monumental firsts and some lost their lives for it, but all of these “Iron Ladies” showed that women can indeed run a country, even decades at a time.

Here is the list of Top 10 The Most Powerful Modern Women Leaders (The Top 10 Iron Ladies )

1. Queen Elizabeth II - Queen of Britain
2. Indira Gandhi - India
3. Margaret Thatcher - Britain
4. Golda Meir -Israel
5. Angela Merkel - Germany
6. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -Liberia
7. Corazon Aquino -Philippines
8. Benazir Bhutto -Pakistan
9. Sirivamo Bandaranaike -Sri Lanka
10. Yulia Tymoshenko - Ukraine

[ The Most Powerful Modern Women Leaders ]

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is to launch a dedicated satellite for youth next year carrying scientific instruments developed by students from Indian and foreign universities.

“The Launch of this satellite is expected sometimes next year on-board a polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) ” Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair said.

This project is the brain-child of A P J Abdul Kalam, who at the same event in Bangalore termed this project as an ‘youth satellite.’

The various instruments, developed by graduate and postgraduate students of universities from India, Russia and other countries, will study and share data on earth imaging, atmospheric applications, solar emission and galactic observations. Apart from the payload (auxiliary satellite), the launch vehicle will also carry a mini remote sensing satellite, according to ISRO.

“The less than 100-kg spacecraft is being built at our satellite development center in Bangalore. The dedicated youth satellite is the brain-child of former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who proposed such a mission during his visit to Russia two years ago,” Nair said.