The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator and hadron collider located at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. Currently under construction, the LHC is scheduled to begin operation in May 2008. The LHC is expected to become the world’s largest  [...

Most of the presently identified exoplanets have masses similar to that of Jupiter and therefore are assumed to be gaseous objects. With the ever-increasing interest in discovering lower-mass planets, several of the so-called super-Earths, which are predicted to be rocky,  [...

In recent years a new race for the largest skyscrapers in the world has started. The super-rich states in the gulf region are currently competing against each other.

The construction of the “Burj Dubai” is currently on the way. When  [...

The working group “Vorratsdatenspeicherung” welcomed the today announced decision of the Federal Constitutional Court to partially stop the new telecommunications data retention law in force since beginning of the year. The constitutional judges decided: “The traffic data retention itself is  [...

After the first Ansari X Prize has been won by the constructor Burt Rutan and the funder software billionaire Paul Allen, a new challange has been issued.

The new Google Lunar X Prize (2.0) is a $30 million international competition  [...

The U.S. Navy is calling for competitive prototyping in preparation for fielding its first squadron of Unmanned Combat Air Systems (UCAS) by 2025.NUCAS is expected to replace the Navy’s F/A-18s on aircraft carrier decks, and the system will provide greater  [...