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Horizon 2020 funding if there’s no Brexit deal
This went up on the government webpages yesterday: Horizon 2020 funding if there’s no Brexit deal. In a way it is comforting that someone in government thinks enough of scientific research to even mention it in the current Mayhem. The restatement … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Science Policy
Tagged BBC, brexit, Europe
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First measurement of the Lyman-alpha lines of anti-hydrogen
The ALPHA experiment (no relation) at the CERN antiproton decelerator has just published the first measurement of the Lyman-alpha lines of anti-hydrogen (a positron bound to an antiproton)¹. There is an excellent summary of the measurement here, written by Ana … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged Alpha, Ana Lopez, antimatter, CERN, Guardian, Nature
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The Standard Model at Fifty
At the beginning of June 2018, I gave an (academic) talk on the discovery of the Higgs boson at a meeting at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) to celebrate fifty years of the Standard Model – the SM@50. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Travel
Tagged Case Western, Higgs, video
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Cartographic Errors
Despite my best efforts and those of several others, there are, inevitably, some errors in A Map of the Invisible/Atom Land. Apologies. When they get spotted and reported, they get fixed in future editions. Where they might cause confusion to … Continue reading
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