Category Archives: Physics Stories

Richard Feynman’s Centenary

Posted on 17/05/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Interview with Adam Rutherford on BBC Inside Science.

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Brilliant Blunders: the mistakes made by some of history’s greatest scientists

Posted on 01/06/2016 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Weasels in the Large Hadron Collider, and self-throwing dead cats

Posted on 01/05/2016 by Jon Butterworth

Scientists deployed a new political technology twice this week, to spectacular effect On Thursday I was on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science, discussing with Adam Rutherford some excitement around the new data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Under his newly-invented ‘Cloak … Continue reading →

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Mathematical déjà vu, and Coffee

Posted on 02/08/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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