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October 26, 2010 4:58 PM
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Panel Wants U.S. to Chase 'God Particle'—If There's Money
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND—Keep going. That's the advice today from a federal advisory panel to government officials responsible for running the last U.S. atom smasher. But the panel's caveat—only if you...
October 21, 2010 1:38 PM
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Penthouse Magazine Founder and Fusion Research Supporter Guccione Dead at 79
Among his many—mostly decidedly unscientific—achievements, Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione was probably the world's biggest private investor in fusion technology. Guccione, who died at age 79 in Texas yesterday,...
October 8, 2010 11:54 AM
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Superlaser Begins Key Experiments
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced this week that testing time is over: the lab's National Ignition Facility (NIF), the highest energy laser in the world, has fired its...
October 4, 2010 2:50 PM
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Plans for New Italian Particle Smasher Gather Steam
Italy is increasing its investment in a planned €500 million particle collider outside Rome. The National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) may double funding next year for work on...
American Physicists Scrounge to Stay in 'God Particle' Race
The director of the sole particle physics laboratory in the United States says he has found ways to scrape up about one-third of the money the lab will need...
September 17, 2010 10:55 AM
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Senate Confirms Final White House Science Policy Nominee
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate confirmed Carl Wieman as associate director for science at the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Nobel physics laureate is expected to spearhead the...
September 1, 2010 11:17 AM
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Advisers Urge U.S. Lab to Continue Quest for God Particle
The only particle physics lab in the United States should get another chance to beat its European rival to the discovery of the most coveted particle in high-energy physics—even...
European Particle Physics Lab Tightens Belt But Cancels No Projects
Many physicists around the world must be breathing a sigh of relief, as officials at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, today released a revised budget for the next...
New Director Shakes Up Management of Fusion Project
Just 2 days after becoming director-general of ITER, the international project aiming to prove the viability of fusion as an energy source, Osamu Motojima has a message he wants...
International Fusion Effort Finally Gets Go-Ahead, and a New Leader
As expected, the governing council of the ITER fusion effort today finally approved the project's so-called Baseline, the document outlining its design, schedule, and costs and confirmed Japanese fusion-scientist...
World's Biggest Particle Physics Lab May Idle All Accelerators in 2012
PARIS—Particle physicists and science fans everywhere knew that the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, would shut down the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest atom...
July 6, 2010 7:00 PM
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U.K. Seeks Sites to Store the Nation's Nuclear Waste
At a briefing held yesterday to outline plans for an underground repository for high-activity nuclear waste in the United Kingdom, Bruce McKirdy of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said...
June 22, 2010 6:01 PM
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In Race to Build New Particle Smasher, Japan Gets $100 Million Head Start Over Italy
Things are heating up in a race to build a new type of particle smasher known as a "super B factory." The Japanese government will invest $100 million to...
No Solution Yet to ITER's Budget Crunch
With only a few weeks to go before an important meeting of ITER's governing council, European nations failed at a meeting yesterday to agree on a way to guarantee...
Japan Restarts Troubled Breeder Reactor
TOKYO—Fourteen years after a coolant leak and botched cover-up led to its shutdown, Japan's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor Monju was restarted today with the hope of moving the controversial...
Italy and Russia Fuse to Build New Reactor
Russia and Italy announced on Monday that they will collaborate to build a new tokamak fusion reactor called Ignitor. Following talks between Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his...
April 16, 2010 4:21 PM
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Australian Synchrotron Bounces Back
The Australian Synchrotron near Melbourne is back in full operation now that staff scientists have ended a winter-long slowdown; they were protesting alleged management blunders. Scientists returned to 24-hour...
April 13, 2010 3:00 PM
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Lasers, Uranium, and Proliferation
National Public Radio looks at an emerging proliferation risk—a method of enriching uranium to make fuel for nuclear power using lasers. They spoke to Francis Slakey, a physicist at...
Audit Office Slams Weapons Lab Megalaser
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has lambasted the National Ignition Facility (NIF)—the most powerful laser ever built—in a new report out today. "Scientific and Technical Challenges and Management Weaknesses,"...
Japan Nears Restart of Experimental Fast Reactor
Japan's Monju experimental fast-breeder reactor faces one last hurdle before restarting 14 years after an accident and a botched coverup shut it down: An OK from the governor of...
March 22, 2010 7:11 PM
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Carl Wieman Chosen for White House Science Post
Physicist Carl Wieman has been picked to be associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). A 2001 Nobelist for creating a...
Europe's LHC to Run at Half-Energy, Tightening Race for Higgs
The world’s highest energy atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will run at half its maximum energy through 2011 and likely not at all in 2012. Officials at...
Slain Iranian Physicist's Campus Talk Suggests Strong Reformist Ties
Who killed Masoud Alimohammadi, the Iranian physicist who was blown up outside his apartment in Teheran on 12 January by a remote-controlled motorcycle bomb? Emerging details of the professor's...
Can Africa Topple Australia in the Contest To Build the World's Biggest Telescope?
Physicists from across Africa gathered this week in Dakar, Senegal, for a conference focused on lasers and optics. But radio astronomy dominated the chatter in the hallways. Africa has...
British Science Funding Cuts Strike Nuclear Physics, Astronomy, and More
Large parts of the U.K. physics community were left dissatisfied today by a major new funding plan announced by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the funder responsible...
It's Official: World Has New Highest-Energy Particle Accelerator
The world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has set a new record for accelerating subatomic particles to high energy. Early Monday morning protons whizzed around the 27-kilometer-long...
Back In Action: Super Collider May Have Smashed First Atoms
Physicists the world over are eagerly waiting for the world’s new highest-energy atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, to blast some particles together, and that may have already happened....
Key Physicists Say No New Nukes Needed
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...
November 2, 2009 3:57 PM
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"God Machine" Critics to U.N.: Experiment an Affront to Human Rights
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...
It's On! "God Particle" Race Intensifies as Obama Tries to Keep Particle Smasher in Hunt
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...
Just Chillin': Large Hadron Collider Cold and Ready to Start Up Again
After 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,...
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