Blog of the Isotopes

All about nuclear physics - research, news and comment. The author is Prof Paul Stevenson - a researcher in nuclear physics in the UK. Sometimes the posts are a little tangential to nuclear physics.

Monday, 25 January 2010

Missing the "subcritical" point

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The Ion Report warned that further cuts in STFC's support for nuclear physics could make it "subcritical." According to a rep...

Thursday, 14 January 2010

Doomsday update

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Sometimes, when people ask what I do and I tell them that I'm a nuclear physicist, they look a bit amazed and ask me if I make weapons. ...

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Funding cuts - update

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So, as mentioned before Christmas , nuclear physicists were awaiting news of potential funding cuts that would come as a result of a shortag...

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Friday, 18 December 2009

Dark Matter - Detected?

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Stealing a march on the LHC, it seems that groups looking for Dark Matter in a low-background experiment in a copper mine in the States may ...

Monday, 14 December 2009

Interesting days ahead

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It can't have escaped many people's attention that there is a serious worldwide financial crisis going on. There have been innumera...

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Tuesday, 17 November 2009

NMR/Enema

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On Friday I went to a school in Slough to give my nuclear physics talk entitled "Field guide to the isotopes" which consists of a ...

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Science and Politics

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So: the Home Secretary dismissed a scientific advisor for being a scientist and complaining that the Government deliberately ignored the adv...

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