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Projects from gravitational wave detection to viewing the Milky Way and generating thermonuclear power march aheadCern has announced plans for a Future Circular Collider...

Many rocks are covered with circular hollows that look like honeycomb, and now we may finally understand how these strange formations come into existence

By JOHN HEILPRIN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Scientists believe the “God particle” that might explain the underpinnings of the universe is real, and they are about to present their...

The man whose inventions led to nuclear power proliferation knew thorium was preferable to uranium – it's time we caught up• What is thorium and how does it generate power?A year ago this Sunday, a dreadful and terrifying...

An abundant source of nuclear energy with no danger of meltdown, and a possible solution to the world's energy crisisProfessor Bob Cywinski is every inch the academic: a wavy-haired, bearded man with a voice like hot coffee...

An abundant source of nuclear energy with no danger of meltdown, and a possible solution to the world's energy crisisProfessor Bob Cywinski is every inch the academic: a wavy-haired, bearded man with a voice like hot coffee...

UPDATE 5:57 AM The live webcast from CERN is overloaded but it appears that uncertainty still exists about the HB, they may have glimpsed its signal around 126 GeV – see below – Anthony “The God Particle”...

For decades, scientists have been predicting that, one day, the same process that powers the sun will give us virtually unlimited cheap, clean electricity...

Last night I decided to have a look at the Space Weather Prediction Center solar charts to see how the geoplanetary magnetic index (Ap) was doing, and decided since I was too tired, I’d put it off until this morning...

We were honoured to have theoretical physicist Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith in the studio with us.

Astrobiologist Dr Lewis Dartnell from University College London joins us in the studio to speculate about what form life might take elsewhere in the Solar System and beyond...

Was Fossil Ida all hype? This 47-million-year-old skeleton was certainly beautiful but was it really the missing link? In the studio, James Randerson, Ian Sample and Nature magazine's Adam Rutherford joins Alok Jha to take...

A tentative first step towards an era of clean, almost limitless energy took place this week with the opening of a giant facility designed to recreate the power of the stars in an oversized warehouse in California

Success at National Ignition Facility could pave the way for commercial laser fusion power stations and provide a solution to world energy crisis