How will science policy change after next months presidential election?
“Energy, climate – these things may change significantly. Physics probably won’t,” said Jean Cottam, assistant director for the physical sciences and engineering at the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Cottam said the Bush administration has kept tabs on the LHC. “It actually came up at a senior staff meeting at the White House,” she said, although the main topic of conversation was doomsday black holes. For more about the LHC, check out our special report on “The Big Bang Machine.”Show more ShareBrowse: science Tweet • 27Oct20081:05pm, EDTYour daily dose of science on the Web • Slate: Think globally, date locally • Science News: Long live plastics! • New York Times: The wonders of blood • Scientific American: The science of snacks Show more ShareBrowse: daily-dose Tweet • 24Oct20082:00pm, EDTRocket racers target spaceRocket Racing Inc. and Armadillo Aerospace are taking their rocket-powered partnership to the next level, in a suborbital space tourism venture to b
