CERN’s CMS Experiment has organized a new pilot training program, titled “Playing with Protons,” which allows teachers to get acquainted with the basics of particle physics and subsequently transfer their experiences and knowledge to their pupils.
Google's self-driving vehicles are mastering complex situations on public roads as the technology company strives to win the high-profile race to achieve full vehicle automation.
Solar panels generated more electricity than coal in the past six months in a historic year for getting energy from the sun in the UK, according to a new analysis.
New gravity data from recent Cassini flybys of the giant planet suggest that Dione's crust floats on an ocean 62 miles below the surface, and may harbor microbial life.
The Ocean Cleanup, a foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, has just presented the initial findings of its Aerial Expedition.
Three scientists working in the United States were honored for discoveries of "topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter".
Researchers from Cambridge, Oxford, and three other London universities may have found a cure for HIV, and a 44-year-old British man may be cured.
The island nation of Cape Verde has pledged to power the entire country with nothing but renewable energy by the year 2020, and vowed to help other African states work towards the same goal in future.
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy -- a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components.
The Rosetta spacecraft ended its historic mission by crashing on the surface of the dusty, icy comet. It has spent 12 years chasing in a hunt that has provided insight into the early days of the solar system and captured the public's imagination.
Scientists have designed a new generation of universal flu vaccines to protect against future global pandemics that could kill millions.
Using this exoskeleton in a virtual environment, a baseball feels firm, and an egg light and fragile.
Scientists have found the first gamma-ray binary in another galaxy and the most luminous one ever seen.
A new type of nanodevice for computer microprocessors is being developed that can mimic the functioning of a biological synapse -- the place where a signal passes from one nerve cell to another in the body.
Australian scientists have stopped light in a cloud of very cold atoms, a development that provides a essential building block for quantum computing.
