^List Of OSCAR(Academy Award) Records^

GIVEN BELOW ARE THE LIST OF OSCAR (ACADEMY AWARD) RECORDS AND WINNERS LIST TILL 2010.

                   ACADEMY AWARD FIRSTS:

• First person to accrue ten Oscar nominations
• Bette Davis received her tenth Oscar nomination for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
• First woman to win Best Director
• Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker(2009)

• First woman to win Best Picture
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• Julia Phillips for    
• The Sting (1973)

• First 3-D films to be nominated for Best Picture
• Avatar and Up (2009)

• First fantasy film to win Best Picture   
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King(2003)
  

• First animated film to be nominated for Best Picture
• Beauty and the Beast (1991)

• First animated film to be nominated for Best Original 
• Screenplay
• Toy Story

• First animated film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film
• Waltz with Bashir representing Israel (2008)

• First film without dialogue to win an Oscar
• The Red Balloon (1956), winning for Best Original Screenplay

• First film to have the most Oscar nominations of its year without having a Best Picture nomination
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• Dreamgirls (2006), with eight nominations

• First X-rated film to win for Best Picture
•  Midnight Cowboy (1969). It was also the first X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture.

• First Middle-Eastern actor to be nominated
• Shohreh Aghdashloo, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in House of Sand and Fog (2003).

• First posthumous nomination for acting
• Jeanne Eagels, nominated for Best Actress in 1929 for The Letter.

• First posthumous nomination for a male actor
• James Dean, nominated for Best Actor in 1956 forEast of Eden.

• First posthumous win for acting
• Peter Finch, who won for Network (1976).

• First actress to win for performing in a language other than English
• Sophia Loren for Two Women (1960), performing in Italian.

• First actor to win for performing in a language other than English
• Robert De Niro for The Godfather Part II (1974), performing in Sicilian.

• First African to win an acting award
• Charlize Theron (from South Africa) won Best Actress for Monster (2003).

• First African man to be nominated for acting
• Djimon Hounsou (from Benin) for In America(2003).

• First Australian actress to win for acting in a lead role
• Nicole Kidman won Best Actress for The Hours(2002).

• First black actress to win for acting
• Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress forGone With the Wind (1939).

• First black actor to win for acting
• Sidney Poitier won Best Actor for Lilies of the Field(1963).

• First black actress to win for acting in a lead role
• Halle Berry won Best Actress for Monster's Ball(2001).

• First child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination
• Jackie Cooper, age 9, was nominated for Best Actor for Skippy (1931).

                   AGE-RELATED RECORDS:

• Youngest winner of an acting award
• Tatum O'Neal, age 10 (Best Supporting Actress,Paper Moon, 1973)

• Youngest nominee of an acting award
• Justin Henry, age 8 (Best Supporting Actor, Kramer vs. Kramer, 1979)

• Youngest winner of an Oscar
• Shirley Temple, age 6, who was awarded the inaugural (now retired) non-competitive Academy Juvenile Award in 1934.

• Youngest nominee for Best Director
• John Singleton, age 24 (Boyz n the Hood, 1991)

• Oldest winner of an acting award
• Jessica Tandy, age 80 (Best Actress, Driving Miss Daisy, 1989)

• Oldest nominee of an acting award
• Gloria Stuart, age 87 (Best Supporting Actress,Titanic, 1997)

                  FILM RECORDS:

• Most nominations for a single film
• Two films received 14 nominations. They are:
• All About Eve (1950)
• Titanic (1997)

• Most Oscars without winning Best Picture
• Cabaret won 8 awards (1972)

• Most nominations without any wins
• Two films received 11 nominations without winning any awards. They are:
• The Turning Point (1977)
• The Color Purple (1985)

• Most nominations without a Best Picture nomination
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) with 9 nominations.

• Most Oscars without a nomination for Best Picture
• The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) with 5 wins

• Nominations in the most different technical categories
• Two films have been nominated in all 7 technical categories. They are:
• Titanic (1997)
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

                   ACTING RECORDS:

• Most consecutive leading actress nominations
• Two actresses have been nominated 5 years in a row. They are:
• Bette Davis (1938–1942)
• Greer Garson (1941–1945)

• Most consecutive leading actor nominations
• Marlon Brando with four nominations (1951 to 1954)

• Most total nominations for acting
• Meryl Streep with 16 nominations.

• Most acting nominations without a win
• Peter O'Toole with 8 nominations. (He received an Honorary Award in 2002.)

• Longest gap between 1st and 2nd win
• Helen Hayes won in 1932 for The Sin of Madelon Claudet and in 1971 for Airport, a 39-year gap.

• Longest time span between first and last nomination
• Katharine Hepburn (48 years from 1932/33 to 1981)

• Most posthumous nominations
• James Dean with 2 (1956 for East of Eden and 1957 for Giant).

• Shortest performance to win an acting Oscar
• Beatrice Straight in Network (1976) - 5 minutes and 40 seconds.

• Shortest performance to win a lead acting Oscar
• David Niven in Separate Tables (1958) - 15 minutes and 38 seconds.

• Shortest performance to be nominated for an acting Oscar
• Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top (1959) - 2 minutes and 32 seconds.

• Most wins by a black actor
• Denzel Washington with 2, winning Best Supporting Actor for Glory (1989) and Best Actor for Training Day (2001).

• Longest Life Span for a Acting winner
• Two acting winners have reached the age of 100.
• Two-time Best Actress winner Luise Rainer, who won for The Great Ziegfeld(1936) and The Good Earth (1937). She is still alive at age 101.
• George Burns, who won for Best Supporting Actor for The Sunshine Boys. He died in 1996 at age 100.

• Longest to hold the Oscar after they won
• Luise Rainer won her first Oscar in 1937, thereby holding the Oscar for 74 years, longer than any other Oscar winner.

• Most awards for one acting performance
• Harold Russell played Homer Parish in The Best Years of Our Lives in 1946. For this role he received 2 Oscars, a Best Supporting and one for being an inspiration to all returning veterans.

                  MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS:

• Most total nominations without a win
• Federico Fellini was nominated for 12 Oscars as a director or screenwriter without winning any. (He received an Honorary Award in 1992). Randy Newman's first Oscar (for Best Original Song in 2002) came after fifteen unsuccessful nominations.

• Most nominations for a person
• Walt Disney with 59 nominations.

• Most nominated living person
• Film composer John Williams with 45 nominations.

• Most nominated woman
• Edith Head with 35 nominations.

• Highest "perfect score"
• Sound editor Mark Berger has four nominations and four wins.

• Most nominations without a win
• Sound re-recording mixer Kevin O'Connell with 20.

• Most nominations for directing
• William Wyler with 12 nominations.

• Most nominations for directing in a single year
• Two people have received 2 nominations for Best Director in the same year. They are:
• Michael Curtiz for Angels with Dirty Facesand Four Daughters in 1938.
• Steven Soderbergh for Erin Brockovichand Traffic in 2000.

• Most Best Picture awards for a film series
• The Godfather series with 2 (for The Godfather andThe Godfather Part II).

• Most nominations and awards for a film series
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy with 17 wins out of 30 nominations.

• Most nominations for Best Original Screenplay
• Woody Allen with 14 nominations and 2 wins

• Longest time between the release of a film and winning an Oscar
• Limelight (1952) is the only film to have won an award twenty years after its official release. Since it was not released in Los Angeles County until 1972, it was not eligible for any Academy Awards until that time.

• Most posthumous award wins
• William A. Horning won in 1958 for Best Art Direction for Gigi and for Best Art Direction forBen-Hur in 1959.

• Most posthumous award nominations
• Howard Ashman with four.

MOST AWARDS:

• Most awards won by a single film
• Three films won 11 Academy Awards. They are:
• Ben-Hur (1959)  
• Titanic (1997)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
• Most nominations received by a single film
• Two films received 14 nominations. They are:
• All About Eve (1950)
• Titanic (1997)

• Highest Sweep (Winning every nominated category)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King(2003) won all 11 categories it was nominated for: Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Mixing, Art Direction, Makeup, Costume Design, Film Editing, Visual Effects

• Most awards won by a man
• Walt Disney won 26 Oscars (22 competitive, 4 honorary). He also won the most Oscars in one year, with 4.

• Most awards won by a woman
• Costume designer Edith Head won 8 Oscars.

• Most awards won by a person who is still living
• Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Muren has won 9 Academy Awards: 6 competitive awards, 2 "Special Achievement" awards, and 1 "Technical Achievement" award

• Most competitive awards won by a person who is still living
• Composer Alan Menken has won 8 competitive Academy Awards.

• Directing
• John Ford won the most directing awards, with 4

• Acting
• Katharine Hepburn won 4 Academy Awards (all for Best Actress)
• Three other actors have each won three Academy Awards:
• Ingrid Bergman (2 Best Actress, 1 Best Supporting Actress)
• Jack Nicholson (2 Best Actor, 1 Best Supporting Actor)

Walter Brennan (3 Best Supporting Actor)

• Cinematography

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• The highest number of Academy Awards won by any cinematographer is 4. They are:
• Joseph Ruttenberg, in 1938, 1942, 1956 and 1958
• Leon Shamroy, in 1942, 1944, 1945 and 1963

•  ArtDirection                                                                                                                           Cedric Gibbons, who designed the Oscar statuette, won 11 awards out of a total of 39 nominations.

AWARDS FOR DEBUT ACTING OR DIRECT PERFORMANCES ON FILM:

• Best Actress
• Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba, 1952)
• Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, 1964)
• Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl, 1968)
• Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God, 1986)

• Best Supporting Actor
• Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields, 1984)
• Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946)

• Best Supporting Actress
• Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse, 1936)
• Katina Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943)
• Mercedes McCambridge (All the King's Men, 1949)
• Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, 1954)
• Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, 1955)
• Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon, 1973)
• Anna Paquin (The Piano, 1993)
• Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, 2006)

• Academy Juvenile Award
• Claude Jarman, Jr. (The Yearling, 1946)
• Vincent Winter (The Little Kidnappers, 1954)

• Best Director
• Delbert Mann (Marty, 1955)
• Jerome Robbins (West Side Story, 1961)
• Robert Redford (Ordinary People, 1980)
• James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, 1983)
• Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves, 1990)
• Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999)

                  BIG FIVE WINNERS:

Three films have received the so-called Big Five Academy Awards (best picture, director, actor, actress, and writing):

• It Happened One Night (1934)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

                  MOST CONSECUTIVE AWARDS:

• Best Actress
• Two actresses have won two consecutive awards. They are:
• Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld, 1936 andThe Good Earth, 1937)
• Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1967 and The Lion in Winter, 1968)

• Best Actor
• Two actors have won two consecutive awards. They are:
• Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous, 1937 and Boys Town, 1938)
• Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, 1993 andForrest Gump, 1994)

• Best Director
• Two directors have won two consecutive awards. They are:
• John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 andHow Green Was My Valley, 1941)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three Wives, 1949 and All About Eve, 1950)

• Best Supporting Actor
• Jason Robards won two consecutive awards for All the President's Men in 1976 and Julia in 1977

• Best Picture
• David O. Selznick won two consecutive awards for producing Best Picture winners Gone with the Windin 1939 and Rebecca in 1940.

• Best Original Screenplay
• No consecutive winner for Best Original Screenplay

• Best Adapted Screenplay
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz won two consecutive adapted screenplay awards for A Letter to Three Wives in 1949 and All About Eve in 1950.
• Robert Bolt won for Doctor Zhivago in 1965 and A Man for All Seasons in 1966.

• Best Original Score
• Roger Edens won 3 consecutive awards for composing the scores for Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949), and Annie Get Your Gun (1950).
• Eight composers have won 2 consecutive awards; two of them have done so on two different occasions. They are:
• Ray Heindorf (Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942 and This Is the Army, 1943)
• Franz Waxman (Sunset Boulevard, 1950 and A Place in the Sun, 1951)
• Alfred Newman (twice)
• With a Song in My Heart, 1952 and Call Me Madam, 1953
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, 1955 and The King and I, 1956
• Adolph Deutsch (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 1954 and Oklahoma!, 1955)
• André Previn (twice)
• Gigi, 1958 and Porgy and Bess, 1959
• Irma la Douce, 1963 and My Fair Lady, 1964
• Leonard Rosenman (Barry Lyndon, 1975, and Bound for Glory, 1976)
• Alan Menken (Beauty and The Beast, 1991 and Aladdin, 1992)
• Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, 2005 and Babel, 2006).

"AMAZING SCIENCE FACTS"

01. The highest recorded temperature on Earth was measured in Libya in 1922, and it was 58°C.

02. The lowest recorded temperature on our planet was -89.6°C. This was measured in Antarctica in 1983. 
  

03. Can you live without you head? Well if you are a cockroach you can manage somewhere around 9 days or so.

04. So how alike are humans and chimps? Well if you consider that we share 98.4% of our DNA you could say a very lot, though on other hand we do share 70% of our DNA with a slug. 

05. Average male brain is larger than average female brain. 

06. Polar bears would make perfect thieves since they cannot be detected by infrared cameras because of their transparent fur. 

07. Rats are really fast lovers, especially desert rats that can copulate 122 times an hour. 

08. Lefties are really in minority since 88% of all humans are right handed. 

09. Smelly feet are likely to get you in more trouble with mosquitoes since they prefer people with smelly feet. 

10. Snails are definitely among the sleepiest animals as they can sleep for three years. 

11. Word "Science" derives from Latin word scientia meaning knowledge.

12. Brain cells are the longest living cells in our body, they can last for an entire lifetime.

13. Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system with surface temperature above 450 C.

14. Sound travels 4 times faster in water than in air.

15. One of the most accidental discoveries was the one of microwave. This discovery happened after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 
16. In case you have ever wondered why giraffes are such a quiet animals it is because they have no vocal chords to make any noise. 

17. Our moon is extremely dry, it is for instance one million times drier than the infamous Gobi Desert.
 

18. Year is not always longer time period than a day. Mercury for instance has one day on the planet twice as long as one year. This is because Mercury rotates very slowly but revolves around the Sun in slightly less than 88 days.

19. In case you want to be taller than the perfect profession for you is astronaut since astronauts can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space.This happens because the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity.

20. Though many would say otherwise hot water freezes quicker than the cold water.

21. Albert Einstein had speech difficulties in early age.

22. Methane is extremely potent greenhouse gas and cows are among the largest methane emitters with each domestic cow emitting about 105 pounds of methane a year.

23. So far scientists have discovered over 20 planets outside our solar system.

24. Spacecrafts are extremely fast, with fastest one going to 40,000 mph.

25. Surprisingly enough little mosquito has 47 teeth.
26. Our fingernails are growing much faster than our toenails, about 4 times faster. 

27. Talking about the hot stuff - The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA. 

28. Hurricanes cause havoc which is really no surprise since a typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs. 

29. Polar bears may look slow and fat, but they are in real life far from it since they can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air. 

30. Mosquitoes like women more than men since they very much like smell of estrogen.

31. Not all animals on our planet have brains, for instance starfish do not have brains. 

32. Kangaroos are lacking ability to walk backwards. 

33. Eyes always remain same in size since the time we are born and till the moment we die, unlike our ears and nose that are constantly growing throughout our life. 

34. Only humans have ability to sleep on their backs. 

35. Our brain isn't much different than the rest of our body in terms of water since 80 % of our brain is water. 

36. While cancer is perhaps the greatest disease of humanity, sharks do not have this problem as they are totally immune to cancer.

Family planning, healthier economies

SUBMITTED BY JULIA ROSS 

Countries like South Korea and Thailand have seen similar demographic formulas work to their advantage in recent decades:  falling fertility rates lead to burgeoning adult working populations lead to greater economic productivity.

How did they harness these changes to create engines of growth? According to speakers at a World Bank panel on “Realizing the Demographic Dividend ,” greater investments in health, family planning, and gender equality paved the way, followed by further investments in education, youth development, and job creation.When Thailand launched a national family planning policy in the 1960s, “the dividend to the economy turned out to be larger than expected,” said H.E. Thirachai Phuvanatnaranubala,
Minister of Finance for Thailand. Women were able to access education, leave rural areas, and take jobs in manufacturing and services. Eventually, women decided to delay having children, he said, and the economy benefited from an expanded workforce.

Bank Vice President for Human Development Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, who chaired the panel, further emphasized the link between gender equality and demographic change, expanding on a key theme  of this year’s Annual Meetings.
“Issues of women’s empowerment are intricately linked to access to family planning,” she said. “Women don’t always have the negotiating power within the household to avail themselves of contraception.”

Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said reducing the price of modern contraceptive tools is key to spurring economic development, and is a focus of her foundation’s work.  “There are 215 million women who would like access to contraception and don’t have it,” she said. “There are 75 million unintended pregnancies--that has huge economic impact.”

U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Raj Shah urged Ministers of Finance to invest in reducing child deaths through immunizations and malaria prevention efforts, promote girls’ education and support family planning programs, to achieve greater economic growth.

At a time when the global population is about to hit 7 billion, Shah noted, “every country is searching aggressively for sustainable growth strategies.”

Gates reinforced Shah’s message online after the event, Tweeting : “The investment case for family planning is clear.”
 

Some Brain Wiring Continues to Develop Well Into Our 20s

Sample tracts at two time points. Tracts are shown at two time points for several individuals. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Alberta)

Science Daily  — The human brain doesn't stop developing at adolescence, but continues well into our 20s, demonstrates recent research from the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta.

"This is the first long-range study, using a type of imaging that looks at brain wiring, to show that in the white matter there are still structural changes happening during young adulthood," says Lebel. "The white matter is the wiring of the brain; it connects different regions to facilitate cognitive abilities. So the connections are strengthening as we age in young adulthood."It has been a long-held belief in medical communities that the human brain stopped developing in adolescence. But now there is evidence that this is in fact not the case, thanks to medical research conducted in the Department of Biomedical Engineering by researcher Christian Beaulieu, an Alberta Innovates -- Health Solutions scientist, and by his PhD student at the time, Catherine Lebel. Lebel recently moved to the United States to work at UCLA, where she is a post-doctoral fellow working with an expert in brain-imaging research.The duo recently published their findings in the Journal of Neuroscience. For their research they used magnetic resonance imaging or MRIs to scan the brains of 103 healthy people between the ages of five and 32. Each study subject was scanned at least twice, with a total of 221 scans being conducted overall. The study demonstrated that parts of the brain continue to develop post-adolescence within individual subjects.The research results revealed that young adult brains were continuing to develop wiring to the frontal lobe; tracts responsible for complex cognitive tasks such as inhibition, high-level functioning and attention. The researchers speculated in their article that this may be due to a plethora of life experiences in young adulthood such as pursing post-secondary education, starting a career, independence and developing new social and family relationships.An important observation the researchers made when reviewing the brain-imaging scan results was that in some people, several tracts showed reductions in white matter integrity over time, which is associated with the brain degrading. The researchers speculated in their article that this observation needs to be further studied because it may provide a better understanding of the relationship between psychiatric disorders and brain structure. These disorders typically develop in adolescence or young adulthood.

"What's interesting is a lot of psychiatric illness and other disorders emerge during adolescence, so some of the thought might be if certain tracts start to degenerate too soon, it may not be responsible for these disorders, but it may be one of the factors that makes someone more susceptible to developing these disorders," says Beaulieu.

"It's nice to provide insight into what the brain is doing in a healthy control population and then use that as a springboard so others can ask questions about how different clinical disorders like psychiatric disease and neurological disease may be linked to brain structure as the brain progresses with age."

The research conducted by Beaulieu and Lebel was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network (CLLRNet).

Particles Appear to Travel Faster Than Light: OPERA Experiment Reports Anomaly in Flight Time of Neutrinos

The OPERA experiment observes a neutrino beam from CERN 730 km away at Italy's INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory. (Credit: Copyright INFN)

Science Daily — Scientists with the OPERA experiment, which observes a neutrino beam from CERN 730 km away at Italy's INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory, are presenting surprising new results (in a seminar at CERN on Sept. 23, 2011) that appear to show neutrinos traveling faster than light.

The OPERA result is based on the observation of over 15000 neutrino events measured at Gran Sasso, and appears to indicate that the neutrinos travel at a velocity 20 parts per million above the speed of light, nature's cosmic speed limit. Given the potential far-reaching consequences of such a result, independent measurements are needed before the effect can either be refuted or firmly established. This is why the OPERA collaboration has decided to open the result to broader scrutiny. The collaboration's result is available on the preprint server arXiv (http://arxiv.org/list/hep-ex/new).

"This result comes as a complete surprise," said OPERA spokesperson, Antonio Ereditato of the University of Bern. "After many months of studies and cross checks we have not found any instrumental effect that could explain the result of the measurement. While OPERA researchers will continue their studies, we are also looking forward to independent measurements to fully assess the nature of this observation."

"When an experiment finds an apparently unbelievable result and can find no artefact of the measurement to account for it, it's normal procedure to invite broader scrutiny, and this is exactly what the OPERA collaboration is doing, it's good scientific practice," said CERN Research Director Sergio Bertolucci. "If this measurement is confirmed, it might change our view of physics, but we need to be sure that there are no other, more mundane, explanations. That will require independent measurements."

In order to perform this study, the OPERA Collaboration teamed up with experts in metrology from CERN and other institutions to perform a series of high precision measurements of the distance between the source and the detector, and of the neutrinos' time of flight. The distance between the origin of the neutrino beam and OPERA was measured with an uncertainty of 20 cm over the 730 km travel path. The neutrinos' time of flight was determined with an accuracy of less than 10 nanoseconds by using sophisticated instruments including advanced GPS systems and atomic clocks. The time response of all elements of the CNGS beam line and of the OPERA detector has also been measured with great precision.

"We have established synchronization between CERN and Gran Sasso that gives us nanosecond accuracy, and we've measured the distance between the two sites to 20 centimetres," said Dario Autiero, the CNRS researcher who will give this afternoon's seminar. "Although our measurements have low systematic uncertainty and high statistical accuracy, and we place great confidence in our results, we're looking forward to comparing them with those from other experiments."

"The potential impact on science is too large to draw immediate conclusions or attempt physics interpretations. My first reaction is that the neutrino is still surprising us with its mysteries." said Ereditato. "Today's seminar is intended to invite scrutiny from the broader particle physics community."

The OPERA experiment was inaugurated in 2006, with the main goal of studying the rare transformation (oscillation) of muon neutrinos into tau neutrinos. One first such event was observed in 2010, proving the unique ability of the experiment in the detection of the elusive signal of tau neutrinos.

The seminar will be webcast at http://webcast.cern.ch.

Oldest operating car 1884 La Marquise

The La Marquise automobile, built in 1884 by De Dion, Bouton & Trépardoux, will grace the auction block in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on October 6, 2011. This automobile is considered the oldest road-going original car in the world.

The steam-powered Victorian machine was consigned by RM Auctions for its annual Hershey auction. It is estimated to be worth a whopping $2 million to $2.5 million.

The oldest running car in the world! Named "La Marquise" after the Count de Dion's mother, this 127-year-old automobile had single-family ownership for 81 years and currently has only four owners. La Marquise was even a participant in the first automobile race in 1887. To be offered in Hershey on Friday, October 7, 2011, this historically significant motor car is undoubtedly an opportunity to be noticed by serious collectors. For more information, please visit rmauctions.com.