Chaos. Nonlinear Dynamics

New high-precision tests carried out by the OPERA collaboration in Italy broadly confirm its claim, made in September, to have detected neutrinos travelling at faster than the speed of light. The collaboration today submitted its results to a journal, but some members continue to insist that further checks are needed before the result can be considered sound.

A hobbyist in Sweden is gaining notoriety after being arrested for trying to build a nuclear fusion reactor in his kitchen, according to news reports.

There are solar panels that generate electricity and those that absorb heat for hot water. And now researchers at MIT and elsewhere say they've made progress on using the sun's heat to make electricity.

At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week, European researches unveiled the world’s first flexible microprocessor made with organic semiconductors.

Sepp Blatter, the president of football's world governing body, lauded soccer's "power" to unite as the 2010 World Cup entered its final stages in South Africa this week.