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...
Should cameras be banned at conference presentations?
Physicists used to be able to show preliminary results at conference presentations...
How fast could Usain Bolt have run the 100-metre dash?
Four physicists in Norway have analysed video of the race and concluded...
DAMA results go through the looking glass
The debate as to whether the DAMA/LIBRA team has detected dark matter will no doubt persist until fresh data can say either way...
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?...
Seeing animals in a new light
At first glance these images look like snapshots from that classic eighties sci-fi flick Predator...
Mooning over ultrahigh-energy neutrinos
When it comes to designing detectors for cosmic neutrinos, the bigger the better...
In the dark about dark matter
Has a European satellite detected dark matter?...
