Fly me to the Moon
'We have had only 27 Earth days on the Moon,' said NASA's Michael Griffin...
In praise of Pendry and plasmons
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending day two of 'Pendry Fest'...
Italian space agency still in flux
Yesterday afternoon, I had a brief chat with Enrico Saggese, the controversial new commissioner of the Italian Space Agency...
Space fair starts with a shower
The weather was dry as I arrived yesterday at the armadillo-shaped congress centre in Glasgow for the 59th International Astronautical Congress...
A triplet of rovibrational ground states
Rovibrational ground states are a bit like buses - you wait a long time for nothing and then three come along one after another.
Could the LHC do the 'Bosenova'?
Superfluid helium and magnetic fields are both in abundance in the Large Hadron Collider...
Climate chaos
A few years back after a particularly wet spell, Lenny Smith found that his local pub in Oxford had been flooded...
'Up-tight' at CERN?
Dorigo spends most of his time working on the LHC's CMS experiment - so what does he have to say about the recent setbacks?...
The LHC, one week later
Many of you will be wondering how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been getting on since last Wednesday's celebrated "switch on"...
Lehman Bros 'killed by complexity'
Have rocket scientists built 'financial weapons of mass destruction'?...
