Jan 26
What a $1-billion pledge means for CERN’s ambitious supercollider plans
British particle physicist Mark Thomson is director-general of CERN.Credit: CERN Last month, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory, CERN, announced that it had secured private donations worth an unprecedented €860 million (US$1 billion) towards the cost of building a future collider of epic proportions. The 91-kilometre Future Circular Collider (FCC), which would span the French–Swiss border and…
