Cosmic Variance, a blog collaboratively run by a team of physicists, has posted a couple of articles in recent days about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) moving closer to being operational and the prospects for what scientific discoveries might be made when its full research program gets underway.
For readers interested in non-technical background information about the LHC, I wrote an eight-part series on the topic. These writings span from May 15, 2007 to September 15, 2007; see the archives in the right-hand column of this blog, scrolling down a bit.