Hacking The Universe
Updated: 2011-11-08 01:16:44
Researchers discover promising hydrogen storage material
Updated: 2011-11-01 14:10:02(PhysOrg.com) -- If hydrogen is to ever to serve as an onboard energy carrier for the transportation industry, a material will be needed that can store large amounts of hydrogen at ambient temperature and pressure. So far, researchers have not found any material that can meet these requirements. But in a new study, a team from China and the US has taken a significant step toward this goal by identifying a material that can store hydrogen with a density as high as 4.6 wt. % (i.e., the hydrogen accounts for 4.6% of the total weight of the storage material), enabling it to meet the target of 4.3 wt. % set by the US department of Energy for 2010.Newswire: CERN - LHC proton run for 2011 reaches successful conclusion
Updated: 2011-10-31 08:27:00Geneva, 31 October 2011. After some 180 days of running and four hundred trillion proton proton collisions, the LHC's 2011 proton run came to an end at 5.15pm yesterday evening. For the second year running, the LHC team has largely surpassed its operational objectives, steadily increasing the rate at which the LHC has delivered data to the experiments.Newswire: INFN - Fernando Ferroni appointed as the president of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Updated: 2011-10-26 05:00:00Fernando Ferroni was appointed today, with a ministerial decree, as the president of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). Ferroni replaces Roberto Petronzio that guided INFN for seven years.New way to funnel light could have infrared applications
Updated: 2011-10-25 14:10:01(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking light control to a new level, scientists have proposed a technique for confining light into an area just 1/500th the size of the light's wavelength. Since funneling light through such tiny spaces enhances the optical fields and increases the light's transmission, it could lead to a variety of new optical applications.Newswire: IHEP - WANG Yifang appointed as the Director of the Institute of High Energy Physics
Updated: 2011-10-24 05:00:00Dr. WANG Yifang is appointed as the Director of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as announced on the day of October 24, 2011 at a meeting held at IHEP.Eye on ionization: Visualizing and controlling bound electron dynamics in strong laser fields
Updated: 2011-10-19 17:50:01(PhysOrg.com) -- Subatomic events can be remarkably counterintuitive. Such is the case in theoretical physics when, under certain specific conditions, atoms exposed to intense infrared laser pulses remain stable rather than undergoing the ionization expected from electric fields at least as strong as the electrostatic forces binding the irradiated valence electrons. Inspired by the observed acceleration of neutral atoms1, and other recent experiments2, researchers at the Max-Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics in Berlin have shown that, in theory, angular resolved photoelectron spectroscopy can be used to directly image these so-called laser-dressed stable atoms.Newswire: ASPERA - A further step in the design of the LAGUNA large neutrino observatory is launched
Updated: 2011-10-18 05:00:00ASPERA / Geneva, 18 October 2011. The kick-off meeting for the second phase of the LAGUNA's design study starts today at CERN. The principal goal of LAGUNA (Large Apparatus for Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics) is to assess the feasibility of a new pan-European research infrastructure able to host the next generation, very large volume, deep underground neutrino observatory. The scientific goals of such an observatory combine exciting neutrino astrophysics with research addressing several fundamental questions such as proton decay and the existence of a new source of matter-antimatter asymmetry in Nature, in order to explain why our Universe contains only matter and not equal amounts of matter and antimatter.Newswire: CERN - CERN, ESS, and ERF organize the first international workshop on better energy management for Big Science
Updated: 2011-10-13 05:00:00Lund, 13 October 2011. For the first time, international experts on energy and representatives from large-scale laboratories are getting together to explore new ideas on energy management, identify best practices and implement ways of effective collaboration. This community meets today in Lund, Sweden, at the European Spallation Source (ESS) for a 2-day workshop co-organized by CERN, ESS and the European Association of National Research Facilities (ERF).