Europe’s particle physicists are faced with a dilemma. They plan a giant accelerator at the CERN nuclear research center, which could be operational by the mid-2040s. However, the machine called FCC (Future Circular Collider) will cost at least 15 billion euros. Funding has not yet been secured. There are also growing indications that China is […]
Europe’s particle physicists are faced with a dilemma. They plan a giant accelerator at the CERN nuclear research center, which could be operational by the mid-2040s. However, the machine called FCC (Future Circular Collider) will cost at least 15 billion euros. Funding has not yet been secured. There are also growing indications that China is […]
Science impacts the climate. Depending on the discipline, the individual “CO2 footprint” of researchers can be considerably larger than that of an average German citizen, which the Federal Statistical Office estimates at around eight tons per year (2020 data). Air travel is a significant contributor, as is the high electricity consumption of data centers, modeling […]
In the ever-growing debate about carbon capture and storage, the focus is now shifting to potential new storage sites: Extinct underwater volcanoes may also be suitable for this technology. A study by Ricardo Pereira and Davide Gamboa of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa published in the scientific journal “Geology” suggests this.The authors analyzed a volcano […]