The CMS upgrade is under way at CERN. With the help of several international collaborations, including Fermilab, the Compact Muon Solenoid detector should have a fourth layer of muon detection chambers installed by the start of 2014.
A Tennessee company has licensed award-winning software from Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will help industries install wireless networks more cost-effectively in challenging environments.
As Berkeley Lab’s laser plasma accelerator project BELLA nears completion, its drive laser has delivered one petawatt – a quadrillion watts – of peak power once each second, a world record for laser performance.
Researchers trying to herd tiny particles into useful ordered formations have found an unlikely ally: entropy, a tendency generally described as "disorder."
A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has developed a software tool that enables users to perform in-depth analysis of modeling and simulation data, then visualize the results on screen.
Method used at Stony Brook’s Proteomics Center, detailed in PLoS One, provides evidence of active infection and opens door to new ways of uncovering history’s medical mysteries.
The Public Accountability Initiative continues to investigate fracking industry influence on academic research with this report on a University of Texas study of fracking.
Pittcon and the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation have signed an agreement under which the Conference will receive an endowment to undertake educational training and development in laboratory sciences...
The U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy recently announced a $41 million investment in 13 projects that will drive more efficient biofuels production and feedstock improvements.