Nasa turns to open-source problem-tracking tool
News The space agency plans to use new software written using Bugzilla tools to track and analyse problems with the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs [18 Nov 2008]
LHC restart date now June at earliest
News Repairs to Cern's Large Hadron Collider, which suffered a serious malfunction shortly after being turned on in September, could cost as much as £11m [18 Nov 2008]
OLPC 'Give One, Get One' scheme comes to Europe
News The scheme will allow Europeans to purchase an XO laptop, the price of which will go towards sending an XO to a child in a developing country [13 Nov 2008]
Pollution tsars call for 'urgent' nanotech regulation
News The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has called for testing and regulation of nanotechnology materials, to prevent possible damage to the environment and public health [12 Nov 2008]
Intel chief: Recession can't halt innovation
News At the Web 2.0 Summit, Paul Otellini showed off a number of internal prototypes and said that, despite the economic climate, a relentless pursuit of innovation is critical to the IT industry [07 Nov 2008]
Tuned transistors make cheaper chips
Blog In the same way that a pillow filled with pebbles is harder to get smooth than one stuffed with sand, chip makers are finding it harder to make transistors behave predictably as they shrink. Here,... [06 Nov 2008]
Wozniak offers advice to potential innovators
News At a recent conference, famed inventor and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shared his experiences as a fledgling computer programmer and advised innovators to 'know who you are' [06 Nov 2008]
LHC - what actually happens when superconducting magnets go...
Blog I came across a very interesting explanation of what actually happens in an incident such as the one which felled the LHC, from Vern Paxson, vern@icir.org. He worked on software for the 1980s big... [30 Oct 2008]
A Solace for Quantum Computing
Blog A year on from a spectacular controversy in quantum computing, it looks like rationality is breaking out. Last year, D-Wave Systems, the only commercial start-up in the highly demonstrated a 16... [27 Oct 2008]
'Solar' breakthrough reveals green ambitions
Blog A reader points me at an energy story that comes larded about with exciting predictions. MIT Energy Storage Discovery Could Lead To "Unlimited" Solar Power! Illustrated with a large picture of a... [26 Oct 2008]
Spintronic CPUs at least 10 years away, says Intel
News Intel has said alternative methods of radically increasing the performance of CPUs are years away, as the focus remains on incremental improvements to get smaller and more efficient chips [22 Oct 2008]
Microsoft takes a sideways look at touch technology
Blog Always a pleasure to report on Microsoft doing good stuff - and this is good stuff. The company's researchers have studded the sides of a mobile phone with infra-red sensors, which can detect the... [22 Oct 2008]
Cern lab hones business tech of the future
News The IT department at the lab behind the Large Hadron Collider is testing new tech from companies such as Intel and Oracle that will trickle down into enterprises [20 Oct 2008]
HP licenses inkjet tech for dialysis machines
News The hardware manufacturer's inkjet technology is to be used in a new type of dialysis machine for renal-failure victims [17 Oct 2008]
Cern: Electrical fault caused LHC helium leak
News A faulty electrical connection in the world's largest particle accelerator was the cause of a liquid-helium leak that damaged the machine, says Cern [17 Oct 2008]
Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
News Cern is planning to build a new computing hub in France, because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry [07 Oct 2008]
Inside Cern's atom-smasher number-cruncher 
Photo The computer centre at Cern in Geneva will process some of the data generated by the LHC experiment, and will act as the point of transfer for the grid-computing project that will handle the rest [06 Oct 2008]
Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
News The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday [06 Oct 2008]
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News The world's most powerful particle accelerator, built to test fundamental physics theories and to search for the Higgs Boson, will be ready to resume in April [03 Oct 2008]
Scientists' goals for the Large Hadron Collider 
Video A CBS correspondent goes 300 feet underground to discover the aims of the scientists involved with the world's largest scientific experiment [29 Sep 2008]
