The ITER cryostat will be the largest high-vacuum pressure chamber ever built. On August 17, a contract for the manufacturing of the 3,800-ton steel structure was signed with the Indian company Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Ltd.

The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Plains Gas Solutions LLC in Eunice, Louisiana, for one willful and seven serious violations involving OSHA's process safety management standards following an explosion and fire that severely burned a worker.

Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE) has invested INR 2,500m (US$45 million) for a minority stake in Inox India Limited (INOXCVA), a leading global manufacturer of cryogenic storage and transportation equipment.

Earlier this year, Fermilab scientist Anna Grassellino began researching past successes and failures of accelerator cavities made of bulk-diffused niobium-nitride. Scientists reported less-than-stellar results in their tests in the 1990s and, in the years since, appeared to have mostly abandoned the material as a possibility for superconducting cavities. But Grassellino...

Many researchers studying superconductivity strive to create a clean, pure, perfect sample, but a team of physicists at Purdue University found that some flaws might hold the key to a material's unique abilities.

Refrigerating coal plant emissions would reduce levels of dangerous chemicals that pour into the air—including carbon dioxide— by more than 90 percent, at a cost of 25 percent efficiency, according to a simple math-driven formula designed by a team of University of Oregon physicists.