“If I was a young physicist today, I would be very excited. We are close to a third revolution concerning our knowledge about the universe.” So said Nobel physicist Carlo Rubbia in Brussels, Belgium, at the late September rollout of a road map for European astroparticle physics. Rubbia mentioned Copernicus displacing Earth from the center of the universe and Charles Darwin's theories on evolution, and added, “We will be focused on the fundamental question: What are we made of? Ninety‐five percen...
The Department of Energy's top counterintelligence official dismissed assertions by the former counterintelligence chief at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) that a 2007 restructuring of DOE's security programs has left the nuclear weapons complex more vulnerable to spying. But he and other DOE officials testifying at a recent House hearing warned of a growing risk to DOE's labs and other weapons assets from cyberattacks, which are increasing in number and sophistication. Directors o...