Next-generation solar cell technology

The most efficient colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cell ever has been created by researchers from the University of Toronto (U of T), King Abdullah

Scientists turn back the clock on adult stem cells aging

Researchers led by the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and the Georgia Institute of Technology have shown they can reverse the aging process for human

Look ma, no hands: Engineers invent a magnetic fluid pump with no moving parts

(PhysOrg.com) -- Used in Hollywood and the advertising industry to create exotic special effects, ferrofluids are seemingly magical materials that are both liquid and magnetic at once. In a study published today in Physical Review B, Yale electrical engineering professor Hur Koser and colleagues from the University of Georgia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstrate for the first time an approach that allows ferrofluids to be pumped by magnetic fields alone. The invention could lead to new applications for this mysterious material.

Scientists take first step towards creating 'inorganic life'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow say they have taken their first tentative steps towards creating

Endgame for the Higgs Boson

The last missing piece of scientists’ fundamental model of particle physics is running out of places to hide.

Large Hadron Collider experiments eliminate more Higgs hiding spots

Two experimental collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, announced that they have significantly narrowed the mass region in which the Higgs boson could be hiding. The ATLAS and CMS experiments excluded with 95 percent certainty the existence of a Higgs over most of the mass region from 145 to 466 GeV.

A hint of Higgs: An update from the LHC

The physics world was abuzz with some tantalizing news a couple of weeks ago. At a meeting of the European Physical Society in Grenoble, France, physicists -- including some from Caltech -- announced that the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) might hint at the existence of the ever-elusive Higgs boson.

CERN experiment weighs antimatter with unprecedented accuracy

The Japanese-European ASACUSA experiment at CERN has reported a new measurement of the antiproton

Large Hadron Collider achieves 2011 data milestone

On June 17 at around 10:50 CEST, the amount of data accumulated by LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS clicked over from 0.999 to 1 inverse femtobarn, signaling an important milestone in the experiments

CERN scientists confine antihydrogen atoms for 1000 seconds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Seventeen minutes may not seem like much, but to physicists working on the Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) project at the CERN physics complex near Geneva, 1000 seconds is nearly four orders of magnitude better than has ever been achieved before in capturing and holding onto antimatter atoms. In a paper published in arXiv, a team of researchers studying the properties of antimatter, describe a process whereby they were able to confine antihydrogen atoms for just that long, paving the way for new experiments that could demonstrate properties of antimatter that until now, have been largely speculation.

Large Hadron Collider powers up to unravel mysteries of nature

Outside the small village of Meyrin, Switzerland, horses graze quietly in fields lined by the Jura mountains. You