Dark energy is at the heart of one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics, but it may be nothing more than an illusion, according physicists at Oxford University.

The helium leak which caused the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to shut down last Friday will mean that the LHC will be in hibernation until Spring 2009. While the repairs will take approximately two months, as I indicated earlier, the lab shuts down in the winter to save costs. Officials with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) decided not to restart the world's largest particle accelerator until next year.

A team of scientists including researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL (University College London) and the IBM Almaden Research Center has forged a breakthrough in understanding an intriguing phenomenon in fundamental physics: the Kondo effect. The findings are reported online today in the scientific journal Nature Physics.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been making headlines this week, as despite death threats, the world's largest particle accelerator fired up this week. Some have expressed concern that the LHC could possibly end the world.

On Wednesday, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will fire up. The LHC is a massive particle accelerator 17 miles in circumference. And some are worried that spinning up the world's largest atom smasher, located beneath the French-Swiss border, will end the world. Updating the story: ABC refering to AP writes that a beam of protons was successfully fired all the way around a 17-mile tunnel beneath the Swiss-French border.

After 20 years of construction, a machine that could either verify or nullify the prevailing theory of particle physics is about to begin its mission.

For years, science fiction writers have imagined cloaking devices that could make objects or people invisible. While invisibility cloaks are still a fantasy, scientists have developed the optical materials that could some day make the illusion a reality. As VOA's Jessica Berman reports the materials, which bend light, have more serious applications as well.

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc (NYSE: JWa), (NYSE: JWb), today announced a new agreement to publish the Asian Journal of Control on behalf of the Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS) and the Asian Control Association (ACA). Wiley-Blackwell will assume publishing responsibilities beginning with Volume 10, Number 1.

Designer labels have a lot of cachet, a principle that's equally true in fashion and physics.

Around 180 budding physicists will be competing to design a detector capable of finding invisible particles at a special physics masterclass being held at Bristol University this week [Thursday 3 and Friday 4 April].

The latest research findings, which involved significant contributions from physicists at the University of Melbourne, have been recently published in the prestigious journal Nature.

A research group at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory led by physics professor Pengcheng Dai, along with collaborators at Boston College, has taken a step toward understanding a great physical mystery.