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At the Guardian.
Scientific research and the European Union
What effect does European Union membership have on science and research? And what would it mean if the UK left? Read more at the Guardian. This also features the pear-shaped nuclei which I wrote about in Nature.
What’s in a name? An H, an i, two g’s and an s
At the Guardian. See also Chapter 8.5 of Smashing Physics.
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Politics, Science
Tagged Higgs, nobel prize, Smashing Physics
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MMR and me
I have a doctorate in physics. My wife has one in chemistry. We have an 11-year-old son, who should have got his MMR jab in 2003 A lot has been written about the MMR scare of just over a decade … Continue reading
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