LIZZIE WADE

A Writer of Science & Culture
Schrödinger’s tombstone

Schrödinger’s tombstone

Family tree of physics. #AAASmtg

Family tree of physics. #AAASmtg

Fermilab. #AAASmtg

Fermilab. #AAASmtg

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider spends its days slamming tiny particles of gold together, helping physicists peer back in time to what the universe looked like a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. It’s also hanging on by a thread, abandoned by the department that’s supposed to be fighting on its behalf.

Nuclear physics in the time of austerity.