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Original Sin review: Was space flight tainted from the get-go?

25 January 2023

A convincing new book by space policy analyst Bleddyn Bowen reveals how space technology was born out of appalling weaponry – and still has a militaristic bent
Star Wars: The Bad Batch

Don’t Miss: Star Wars animation The Bad Batch is back with a vengeance

25 January 2023

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn’t miss
Replacement of the heart of the CMS experiment - the pixel detector, Part2 Date: 07-03-2017 This week, one of the Large Hadron Collider?s experiments gets a ?heart transplant?. --- Physicists and engineers are replacing the heart of the CMS experiment - the pixel #detector. This will improve CMS?s ability to make precise measurements on aspects of the Standard Model, including the properties of the #HiggsBoson. The #LHC and its experiments are currently preparing to wake up this spring, when the accelerator will begin to collide particles once more at close to the speed of light.

Collision review: How CERN's stellar secrets became sci-fi gold

25 January 2023

Margaret Drabble, Luan Goldie, Steven Moffat and Stephen Baxter are among the top writers in Collision, an anthology that transmutes CERN's elusive research into science fiction

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