Abu Dhabi, May 21 – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) opened its thirty-first Council meeting on Wednesday at its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, with more than 300 government representatives attending in person and online.…
MIT physicist Rainer Weiss shares Nobel Prize in…
LIGO inventor and professor emeritus of physics recognized "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.” [caption id="attachment_13310" align="alignnone" width="639"] Rainer Weiss at home early this morning, after learning that…
Violent helium reaction on white dwarf surface triggers…
An international research team has used the Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii to find a Type Ia supernova not long after its explosion. They are the first to find solid evidence about…
Why MIT’s Gediminas Urbonas helped produce a new…
[caption id="attachment_13300" align="alignnone" width="639"] Gediminas Urbonas, director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology and associate professor in the Department of Architecture, is co-editor of a new book, "Public Space: Lost and Found?,”…
First open-access data from large collider confirm subatomic…
CERN Open Data Portal results reveal predictable patterns from colliding high-energy protons. [caption id="attachment_13296" align="alignnone" width="629"] The Compact Muon Solenoid is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider.Image courtesy of CERN[/caption] CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In…