The proposed accelerator, four times the size of the Large Hadron Collider, would smash particles together in a tunnel 100km long. But it may not happen if China goes ahead with a rival facility
The notion that resources should be shifted from physics to climate change research is wrong-headed, says Professor David Wark in his address to the British Association Festival of Science.
The UK’s Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has announced a further £30 million to analyse the expected deluge of data from CERN’s new particle accelerator near Geneva.