Research updates Keep track of the most exciting research breakthroughs and technology innovations.Latest Explore all the latest news and information on Physics World.In 1995 he received the Lord Foundation Award for contributions to science and the public comprehension of it. He has served as scientific consultant to the NHK Network and for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Campbell Award, the British Science Fiction Award (BSFA), the Australian Ditmar Award, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature.

A two-time winner of the Nebula Award, Benford has also won the John W. He is the author of over twenty novels, including In the Ocean of the Night, The Heart of the Comet (with David Brin), Foundation’s Fear, Bowl of Heaven (with Larry Niven), Timescape, and The Berlin Project. He has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy, NASA, and the White House Council on Space Policy. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 1971. He received a BS from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. Gregory Benford is a physicist, educator, and author. In this pulse-pounding thriller, Gregory Benford has returned to the world of scientists at work, exploring ideas at the frontier of mankind's knowledge, and posing profound and provocative questions about creation, human destiny and the riddle of godhood. And when she finds out what it is, she names it 'cosm'.

For the sphere she has created contains far more than at first appears. As the forces of academia, government, theology and the mass media fight for control over the mystery that has been born, one woman comes face to face with fame and terror. For the explosion has left something behind: a sphere the size of a basketball, made of nothing known to science.

It will soon be seen as one of the most significant breakthroughs in history. On an otherwise ordinary day not long from now, inside a massive installation of ultra-high-energy scientific equipment, something goes wrong with a brilliant young physicist's most ambitious experiment. Cosm brings the extraordinary passion, drama and politics of scientific research to life in a stunning near-future thriller.

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