LHC switch-on: a preview
Until a few months back I had an excited vision of the moment the great LHC "switch on" would take place...
Bar brief power failure, LHC ready for start up
In my last blog entry on the Large Hadron Collider I asked if CERN could make it to Wednesday without any further difficulties...
LHC fever hits the UK
No black holes this week, Andrew Marr is on holiday...
LHC finally gets ready for action
After nigh-on three decades, scientists at the CERN laboratory near Geneva are on the verge of completing the world’s most powerful particle collider. With all of the 1600 superconducting magnets t...
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LHC kicks in both directions
Could it be — touch wood — that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will make it to the official 10 September start-up date without any further hiccups?...
Cut the SLAC
The US Department of Energy is getting a minor headache trying to come up with a new name for SLAC...
Happy birthday, ISS!
To commemorate the historic event, a symposium was held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris this week...
LHC ready by June, says Aymar
Robert Aymar, the director general of CERN, has said that the Large Hadron Collider will be in "working order" by the end of June...
LHC magnets pass test
On April 3 last year, the left-hand side of the Fermilab Today website had a graphical weather forecast depicting storm clouds...
Weathering the storm
"You can flood a city, but you can't drown a university", says Greg Seab, a physicist at the University of New Orleans who was speaking at a press conference on the impact of Katrina on local physi...
