Facebook and Greenpeace collaborate on clean energy for data centers

Your time spent mingling with friends online might get a little greener.

Building green is no longer enough, it is time to build resilient

We have to build our homes and buildings in a way that we can maintain them in the face of changing conditions, economic and climactic.

New particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider

CERN researchers have observed a new particle --- the Chi-b(3P) --- in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, University of Birmingham and

Earth-sized planets orbit distant star

The first two Earth-like worlds orbiting another star have been detected, although neither are believed to be suitable for life.

NASA planning for possible landings on Europa

All these worlds are yours except Europa, Attempt no landing there, Use them together use them in peace

High-energy physicists set record for network data transfer

Caltech researchers have set a new world record for data-transfer speed, helping to usher in the next generation of high-speed network technology. At the

Trillion-frame-per-second video camera is world’s fastest

MIT researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second. Media Lab postdoc Andreas

Largest-ever simulation of the universe revealed

Korea Institute for Advanced Study in Seoul scientists have carried out the largest-ever simulation of the universe, consisting of 374 billion particles in

Solar power much cheaper to produce than most analysts realize, study finds

The public is being kept in the dark about the viability of solar photovoltaic energy, according to a study conducted at Queen’s University. The real cost in

Report projects massive solar growth in India

As the American and European solar industries face continued uncertainty, India is aggressively ramping up its solar ambitions behind falling prices and growing energy needs.

A black hole's dinner is fast approaching

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a gas cloud with several times the mass of the Earth accelerating fast towards the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. This is the first time ever that the approach of such a doomed cloud to a supermassive black hole has been observed. The results will be published in the 5 January 2012 issue of the journal Nature.