Visiting the UK’s Largest Particle Accelerator

Just outside Didcot lies a very distinctive huge silver ring doughnut that houses, what is basically, a gigantic microscope – and this weekend there was a fairly rare public open day to let the great unwashed inside its structure to…

Free tours of the UK’s Synchrotron particle accelerator

Update: 13th October. Seems that all the available tickets went to the mailing list subscribers before any could be offered to the public. There will be another open day in March 2011, and the best (only?) way to get a…