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Articles by Richard Poynder

In search of the Big Bang

  • In Depth
  • Date: 06 August 2008
This month (August) the world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will begin hurling subatomic particles called protons around a 27km circular tunnel running beneath the Swiss-French border, before crashing them into each other. By doing so, particle physicists hope to learn more about the physical universe. At the same time, they are reinventing the way they share their research with each other.

Open University studies open access to research

  • In Depth
  • Date: 10 March 2008
The internet has sparked a revolution in scholarly communication, the process by which researchers share new ideas and findings. For universities, this raises...

Peter Murray-Rust and the data-mining robots

  • News
  • Date: 05 February 2008
Peter Murray-Rust, a reader in molecular informatics at the University of Cambridge, has a vision. In his vision, software robots roam the network collecting scientific information, which they aggregate and process to arrive at new insights. Sometimes they make scientific discoveries.
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