Geneva, 29 June 2026. Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Following its final physics run, the accelerator has…
AWAKE achieves first ever acceleration of electrons in…
Geneva, In a paper published in the journal Nature, the AWAKE collaboration at CERNreports the first ever successful acceleration of electrons using a wave generated by protons zipping through a plasma. The acceleration obtained over a given…
Model can more naturally detect depression in conversations
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- To diagnose depression, clinicians interview patients, asking specific questions — about, say, past mental illnesses, lifestyle, and mood — and identify the condition based on the patient’s responses. In recent years, machine…
NASA Launching Advanced Laser to Measure Earth’s Changing…
NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) spacecraft arrives at the Astrotech Space Operations facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California ahead of its scheduled launch on Sept. 15, 2018. Credits: U.S. Air Force/Vanessa Valentine Next month, NASA…
Landslides triggered by human activity on the rise
[caption id="attachment_15853" align="alignnone" width="1280"] Photograph panorama looking over the devastation of the Kedarnath landslide, June 2013, Uttarakhand state, India. Credit: Vaibhav Kaul, University of Sheffield[/caption] More than 50,000 people were killed by landslides around the…