Category Archives: Science Policy

The reaction to Justin Trudeau’s explanation of Quantum Computers shows we should raise our expectations

At the Guardian.

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What does a pentaquark mean to you?

Almost – but not quite – buried on the icy plains of Pluto this week, the Large Hadron Collider revealed a completely new type of particle. What does that tell us? At the Guardian.

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Inside the Rad Lab

Review of Michael Hiltzik’s Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex in Nature.  

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Research funding: Is size really the most important thing?

At the Guardian.

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