Michael Riordan

RIORDAN IS A PHYSICIST WHO WRITES ABOUT SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY. HE IS THE AUTHOR OF “THE HUNTING OF THE QUARK” AND A CO-AUTHOR OF “TUNNEL VISIONS: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER”.

Ten years after it discovered the Higgs boson in 2012, the Large Hadron Collider will start smashing protons together at unprecedented energy levels in its quest to reveal more secrets about how our universe works, on July 5, 2022. The world's largest and most powerful particle collider started back up in April after a three-year break for upgrades to prepare it for its third run.

A new cold war could slow the advance of science

ONE of the many unfortunate consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the collateral damage to international scientific cooperation. The past 2...