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Controlling a boiling plasma at several million degrees Celsius – that's the challenge of nuclear fusion, our great energy hope for the future. EPFL's Plasma Physics Research Center (CRPP) has just published two scientific articles that advance the state of knowledge in the domain.

At the Venture Capital in Education Summit yesterday, Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton , announced the first big partnerships that will have tens of thousands of students trying the adaptive learning platform he's been building for the past five years. What he calls a "data interoperability engine" promises to take any kind of educational content, break it down and present it to students at exactly the sequence and pace they need, while giving detailed feedback on performance to both students and professors. "We can classify students by ability level down to the concept,"

President Obama emphasized advances in efficient lighting yesterday in a campaign narrative that connects his clean energy goals with American job growth. He visited election-important North Carolina to underscore the improvements to light-emitting diode (LED) technology since his last presidential campaign in 2008 -- when he appeared at Cree Inc. for the first time, a few months before capturing the state's Electoral College votes

Preservation groups in the state of South Carolina filed a lawsuit on Monday against Carnival Cruise Lines, claiming the company's ships pollute Charleston and threaten its historic charm.

Mindy Kim maintained her two-stroke lead in the LPGA State Farm Classic, following her opening career-low 64 with a 5-under 67 on Friday to reach 13 under.

Mindy Kim shot a career-low 64 to take a two-stroke lead after the first round lead of the LPGA State Farm Classic on Thursday.

Defending champion Christie Kerr, reigning Player of the Year Yani Tseng and last week's winner Brittany Lincicome headline a loaded field at what would be the final LPGA State Farm Classic.

Arizona State University player Steven Threet leaves football; He says since 4th concussion he's endured headaches every day

Before I launched FamiliesGo! I spent the better part of a year talking to people, reading articles and blogs, and taking classes on starting and running a business. I heard a lot of the same advice over and over

The ongoing debate over cruise liners docking in Charleston has reached well beyond the city's historic waterfront.

As Star Trek is so fond of reminding us, we're carbon-based life forms. But the event that jump-started the universe, the Big Bang, didn't actually produce any carbon, so where the heck did it – and we – come from?

Photograph by Douglas Sonders Alec Ross Senior Adviser for Innovation, Office of the Secretary of State Washington, D.C. Ross, 39, heads the State Department’s initiative to work with technologists in the private sector. "WE HAVE TO LEVERAGE technology in service of our diplomatic and development goals.

Foggy Bottom has a plan to jump-start a venture-capital approach to the field of humanitarian tech. When the earthquake decimated Haiti last year, technologists around the world converged online to develop tools to help rescuers find victims and raise funds .

For many practical applications involving lasers, it's important to be able to control the direction of the laser beams. Just ask Han Solo, or the captain of the Death Star. Researchers from North Carolina State University have come up with a very energy-efficient way of steering laser beams that is precise and relatively inexpensive.

PGT: In New Orleans, the most famous Bubba in the state may not be a fictional character anymore. Move over, Bubba Gump — the Bubba Watson Golf Company is open for business.