Science & Technology – Week of 08.31.14

Behind every credit default swap or short of subprime mortgage-backed assets sit legal counsel sanctioning these practices; their hands are no cleaner than those of

By Jennifer Ouellette Take that, Fermilab! This seems to be the underlying message of yesterday’s BBC News article announcing that CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

Credit: John Tenniel by Greg Palast They may be crying about General Motors’ bankruptcy today. But dumping 40,000 of the last 60,000 union jobs into

Photo Credit: AFP By BBC China has ordered a nationwide audit of all government debt, underlining fears that the recent slowdown in its economy may