Category Archives: Physics

Some first results from the new, higher-energy Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 26/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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What does a pentaquark mean to you?

Posted on 18/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

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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Nature’s hadron collider produces Higgs bosons all the time, high in the sky

Posted on 12/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Inside the Rad Lab

Posted on 09/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

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

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