New power plant design to expand use of geothermal energy in the U.S. Researchers are developing a new kind of geothermal power plant that will lock away unwanted carbon dioxide (CO2) underg... Read more
Information storage: A 60-year-old technology offers a solution to a modern problem—how to store all those bits and bytes cheaply and reliably WHEN physicists switch on the Large Hadron Coll... Read more
The stage is now set for superconductivity to branch out and meet some of the biggest challenges facing humanity today. This is according to a topical review `Superconductivity and the envir... Read more
An international team of physicists has proposed a revolutionary laser system, inspired by the telecommunications technology, to produce the next generation of particle accelerators, such as... Read more
A consortium has brokered an agreement with 12 journals to ensure that nearly all particle physics articles are made immediately free on journal Web sites The entire field of particle physic... Read more
The Nobel Prize winning scientists Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov have taken a major step forward towards creating electronics using the wonder material graphene. Writin... Read more
GRID COMPUTING BEGAN AS A DATA-MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FOR CERN’S LARGE HADRON COLLIDER. NOW, IT STANDS TO REDEFINE COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING IN SCIENCE AND BEYOND Charles Curran, a physicis... Read more