Posts Tagged ‘research’

Fermilab scientists are saying goodbye to the Tevatron, a particle accelerator that led global high energy energy physics for more than 28 years. The Tevatron will be shut down in a festive ceremony between 3 and 3:30 pm EST, which can be followed live via a webstream.

This is an almost obvious invention and you have to wonder why no one else has had the idea yet. Researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) scale back the power that is necessary in idle listening and claim that they can extend smartphone battery life by more than half.

Physicists at the University of Bremen, Germany today said that Arctic sea ice has retreated to a coverage of just 1.637 million square miles, believed to be the lowest level in 8000 years.

Searching for the Higgs boson has proven to be much more difficult than just a needle in the haystack idea. However, scientists now say that they have “significantly” narrowed the believed mass region of the mysterious boson.

IBM announced that it has developed experimental cognitive computer chips that are based on the structure that were “inspired” by the human brain, which, if used in the future, could be much smaller and use less power than today’s chips.

Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) say that the pace of ice melting may not continue and that the amount of ice may stabilize and even increase over the next few decades.

Fermilab is scheduled to shut down its legendary Tevatron particle smasher next month, but scientists are navigating difficult political and financial waters to build the International Linear Collider (ILC) as the potential successor of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN: Fermilab makes plain sense and the U.S. cannot afford not to give the ILC to Fermilab. I was lucky enough to see the origins of what is likely to become the technology for the next super collider.

Realistic graphics can seem to be a bit one-dimensional: Feeling appears to be the next great barrier of making video games much more like the real world and a vibrating controller is just a tiny step in that direction: Surround haptics may enable gamers to immerse themselves in a whole new world of gaming experience.

There are some things that you just shouldn’t do. Such as building your own home nuclear reactor.

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created a graphene and tin nanoscale composite material for high-capacity energy storage in renewable lithium ion batteries. By encapsulating tin between sheets of graphene, the researchers constructed a new, lightweight “sandwich” structure that should bolster battery performance.

Fermilab today announced that scientists working at the CDF (Collision Detector at Fermilab) experiment confirmed the observation of a new particle, the Xi-sub-b.

The idea of the Concorde isn’t entirely dead yet. Almost 50 years of the retirement of the iconic supersonic plane, we could be flying in a new type of extremely fast plane that could cut the travel time between destinations by 75% and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.