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It’s good news for those keen on particle physics, but bad news for those who thought we’d narrowly escaped the world’s end: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back on track!
The LHC is a huge atom smasher, located near Geneva, Switzerland, which scientists hope will give us some info on how the universe began and what [...]

Thanks to a friend, I recently discovered two brilliant games that are really harnessing the potential of crowdsourced science and multiplayer online  communities.
Signtific lab takes a big question (What will happen in the future?) and shuffles it with a simple card game and your imagination. Each ‘trial’ focuses on a simple question (the last one [...]

This week on the Nature Podcast, Kerri Smith and Adam Rutherford unzip nanotubes to make some graphene nanoribbons, challenge the idea that closely related species have similar cognitive abilities and hear about the world’s largest network of cosmic ray detectors in Argentina. All that, plus the weekly NewsChat, celebrating the life of John Maddox, former [...]