Large Hadron Collider Cern We all know this is some feat of engineering. However, it’s extremely difficult to get a scale of the project. Not only is it impossible to imagine the sizes of particles whizzing around at beyond breakneck speeds, but it’s even more difficult to get an idea of...

Some non-crank physicists do a bit of rethinking about the LHC and the black holes it might create: Roberto Casadio from the University of Bologna in Italy, along with Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University of Alabama have taken another look at the math and don’t like what they are seein...

1. Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist William Kristol was hardly alone in thinking that the Democratic primary was Clinton's to lose, but it took a special kind of self-confidence to make a declaration this sweeping more than a year before the Iowa caucuses. After Iowa, Kristol......

This has been a year of portents. We’ve had so many “end of the world is nighs” that we’re probably into “the end of the end of the world is nigh” by now. It clearly isn’t the end of the world though, just the end of our picture of it as a booming sybaritic ...

The scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have decided to delay the ignition of the massive particle accelerator. The LHC countdown now shows 30 more days, so you can enjoy July to its full potential. In case you don't know what a Large Hadron Collider is, it's the thingamajig th...

Dear Moron Physicist Who Can't Write Proper English, I hope you are right about CERN's Large Hadron Collider exploding and destroying the whole frikkin' universe in a big fiery ball of antimatter,......

Say you wanted to do some high-level physics experiments that were likely to reveal all sorts of exciting things about the nature of the Universe, and the way to do that was to build a large hadron collider. And say there was a minor chance you could obliterate the entire planet. How small would tha...

Whom can we trust to do hard-headed calculations to prove that a scientific experiment will not lead to the end of the world?...