Tag Archives: books

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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Dark Matter: An Axion to grind?

Posted on 15/02/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Prepare yourself for the restart

Posted on 14/01/2015 by Jon Butterworth

As the preparations for the higher-energy restart of the LHC continue, good to to see this Horizon “Hunt for the Higgs” (with Jim Al-Khalili, Jim Gates, Adam Davison, me, and others) is available again on BBC iPlayer for a while. … Continue reading →

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The Higgs Boson: A Discovery

Posted on 04/09/2013 by Jon Butterworth

An article on the Higgs discovery in the New Scientist. I also wrote their 35th “Instant Expert” on the Higgs, around the same time. This was later adapted by them to be part of their book “Why the Universe Exists“.

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