ScienceInsider http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/ News and Analysis from the World of Science Policy en Copyright 2009 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:16:37 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Key Physicists Say No New Nukes Needed by Eli Kintisch The secretive JASON group of academic physicists have given a thumbs up to the current program of refurbishing nuclear warheads in the U.S. stockpile instead of building new, more reliable ones. The report should bolster efforts by... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/key-physicists.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/key-physicists.html Defense Physics Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:16:37 -0500 <![CDATA["God Machine" Critics to U.N.: Experiment an Affront to Human Rights]]> by Daniel Clery With the CERN particle physics lab due to start shooting particles around its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) again this month, and the first particle collisions expected in December, anti-LHC campaigners are on the warpath again. A new... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/critics-of-god.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/critics-of-god.html Physics Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:57:24 -0500 It's On! "God Particle" Race Intensifies as Obama Tries to Keep Particle Smasher in Hunt by Jeffrey Mervis and Adrian Cho Watch out, Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the U.S. is not quitting the race to find the famed Higgs boson just yet. If all goes as planned, physicists at the last dedicated U.S. particle physics laboratory... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/its-on-god-part.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/its-on-god-part.html Energy Physics Top Story fermilab higgs LHC Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:16:28 -0500 Just Chillin': Large Hadron Collider Cold and Ready to Start Up Again by Adrian ChoAfter 13 months of repairs and modifications, the world’s largest particle smasher is once again ready to start circulating particles, officials at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, announced today. The guts of the Large... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/large-hadron-co.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/large-hadron-co.html Physics Top Story Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:34:59 -0500