7 things you didn’t know about CERN and the strange world of …
2016年9月7日 · At CERN, over 12,500 scientists from over 110 nationalities collaborate, working in a culture where authority comes from intellectual contributions rather than hierarchy, and colleagues generally share a sense of purpose.
Deep science: what it is, and how it will shape our future
2019年6月26日 · CERN’s mission is to discover the origins of the universe. Along the way, it has developed technologies that improve the health of people around the world. It was instrumental in the development of PET scanners. Positron Emission Tomography produces images that allow doctors to check for diseases in your body.
Nuclear power can play a big role in the energy transition
2020年7月10日 · This technology – termed the 'accelerator driven system, pioneered in CERN in the 1990s – aims to reduce the lifetime of existing radiotoxic nuclear waste and to produce carbon-free energy at an affordable price of less than 5 cents per kWh. This technology is safer, scalable, sustainable and resistant to proliferation.
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This is how many websites there are - The World Economic Forum
2021年8月11日 · By the end of 1992 there were ten websites online and, after CERN made the W3 technology publicly available on a royalty-free basis in 1993, the internet gradually started to grow into the all-encompassing giant that it is today. A "Website" is defined a unique hostname, i.e. a name which can be resolved, using a name server, into an IP Address.
Destroying nuclear waste to create clean energy? It can be done
4 天之前 · More than 20 years of research at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), the birthplace of the internet and where Higgs boson was discovered, demonstrate that thorium could become a radically disruptive source of clean energy providing bountiful electricity any place and at any time.
These are some of the world's top smart and sustainable cities
2024年3月11日 · The report’s authors point out that while the examples above show how cities can be smart, designing them wisely requires strategy and an active, participatory society.
These are the world’s top 10 fastest supercomputers
2022年6月21日 · A huge system called Frontier has put the US ahead in the race to build the world’s fastest supercomputer. This and other of the speediest computers on the planet promise to transform our understanding of climate change, medicine and the sciences by processing vast amounts of data more quickly than would have been thought possible even a few years a
This chart shows which countries produce the most lithium
2023年1月5日 · The below infographic charts more than 25 years of lithium production by country from 1995 to 2021, based on data from BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy.
World Economic Forum Announces New Trustees
2019年1月25日 · Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 25 January 2019 – The World Economic Forum announces that Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, and Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), join its Board of Trustees. Their diverse backgrounds strengthen the multistakeholder governance ...