Amateur Scientists: Making Important Discoveries With A Little Help
How amateur scientists are still helping make important discoveries. What images does science conjure up in your mind? You may well be visualising a laboratory, equations scrawled on a blackboard. Figures are surrounded by glassware filled with coloured liquids. Maybe someone, with a slightly furrowed brow, is hunched...
Major Upgrade of LHC Completed: Civil Engineering Work Completed Successfully
It's a big week for science and technology. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has announced the completion of the civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), an exciting upgrade to its flagship collider, the LHC. The latest upgrade promises to take the LHC's capabilities...