Research infrastructures

The largest piece of EU science infrastructure in Eastern Europe is also the first to be built – at a cost of €300M - with structural funds. Money was not an issue, but rules for constructing roads and railways don’t work for research facilities

Leaders of giant radio telescope project look forward to a year of milestones, including signing a treaty to give SKA intergovernmental status, smoothing its funding outlook

The new pan-European initiative ATTRACT will spur breakthrough innovation and fund technological ideas that can change the world

Scientists in the LIGO and Virgo collaborations have achieved the first ever three-detector observation of the gravitational waves emitted by the merger of two black holes.

The UK is investing £65million in a US-based global science project involving UCL scientists that could change our understanding of the universe.

The largest and most powerful X-ray laser in world has opened in Hamburg. The machine can generate ultrashort X-ray flashes 27,000 times per second, with a brilliance that is a billion times higher than the best conventional X-ray radiation sources.

With the cost of building the European Spallation Source going at least €150M over budget, the facility will have to wait longer to reach full power