He is a professor of nuclear and high-energy physics in Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

UNESCO: Science Policy and Capacity-Building

Here, the objective is to develop middleware for research projects in the biological sciences, earth observation and high-energy physics.

ECONOMIST: REPORT: COMPUTER NETWORKS: Computing power on tap | The

Another niche where powerful superconducting magnets are indispensable is high-energy physics.

ECONOMIST: Inside story

The AMS project began in 1994, when Professor Samuel Ting, a Nobel laureate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was considering a new high-energy physics experiment.

ENGADGET: AMS detects excess of positrons, could suggest existence of dark matter

For a quarter of a century before CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began working in earnest in 2009 the Tevatron, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, near Chicago, dominated high-energy physics.

ECONOMIST: The future of physics (1): So long, and thanks for all the quarks | The

CERN, the European high-energy physics laboratory near Geneva.

ECONOMIST: REPORT: COMPUTER NETWORKS: Computing power on tap | The

LEP, and run the risk that another high-energy-physics laboratory will nab the Higgs first.

ECONOMIST: Cause for conCERN?

For those who slept through their high-school physics classes, batteries work by converting chemical energy into electricity.

FORBES: Running in place