Is there life after CERN?

Is there life after CERN? Will a black hole swallow the earth? Such titled PM magazine in its July issue that my husband bought and kindly s...

The German Academy of Sciences

The UK has its Royal Society , France the Institut de France with its Académie des sciences , Italy has the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ...

We have only ourselves to judge on each other

Last week, I was talking to a string theorist. We were talking about black holes at the LHC , but I am admittedly presently somewhat tired...

Scientists and the Mass Media

The recent issue of Science has an article about Interactions with the Mass Media Science 11 July 2008, Vol. 321. no. 5886, pp. 204 - 205 wh...

Recreating the Big Bang?

With the start of the Large Hadron Collider coming closer, the topic is present in the media more than ever. A commonly used motivation is ...

Black Holes at the LHC - The CERN Safety report

Earlier this year there has been a bit of confusion about potential dangers of switching on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN . A law...

Maps of Science

Interesting website visualizing scienctific research fields based on a co-citiation analysis of journals. mapofscience.com Unfortunately, on...

BioFuel

In March, Biofuel was the title story of the Time magazine. In The Clean Energy Scam , Michael Grunwald reports on 'new studies' tha...