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America Is Breaking Ground On An Enormous Neutrino Experiment Today
Particle physics is rarely a cheap-and-easy endeavour. Just think about the Large Hadron Collider, buried deep beneath the Swiss-French border — it cost over $16 billion to find the Higgs Boson. Well, today at 6:20AM AEST, America is breaking ground on another enormous particle physics experiment.
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Trump Team Walks Back On That Crazy Survey It Sent To The Department Of Energy
Last week, the transition team of the US president-elect sent a survey to the Department of Energy asking for a list of staff members who have worked on climate change policies. This week the department told Trump, in essence, “nope.” Trump is now backing down.
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Trump Won’t Get His List Of Climate Change Conference Attendees
Last week, Donald Trump’s transition team asked the US Department of Energy for a list of staff and contractors who have worked on policies around climate change. The move was unusual and led to speculation that the Trump team was looking to purge the agency of people who accept the established science on climate change.…
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US Department Of Energy Was Also Nailed By Hackers
Reuters reports that the US Department of Energy was hacked last month, and a trove of employee information was lost to the cyber intruders.