Read article: Square Kilometre Array hit by €250m shortfall Projects and facilities News Square Kilometre Array hit by €250m shortfall Officials planning the giant radio telescope hope to plug the funding gap by attracting new countries to the project
Read article: CERN expected to announce one-year delay to Large Hadron Collider upgrade Projects and facilities News CERN expected to announce one-year delay to Large Hadron Collider upgrade Decision is set to be taken tomorrow on whether to postpone the completion of the high-luminosity upgrade until 2028
Read article: European physicists propose huge underground gravitational-wave laboratory Projects and facilities News European physicists propose huge underground gravitational-wave laboratory ELGAR would consist of two 32 km-long arms to detect gravitational waves via atom interferometry
Read article: US dark-matter detector heads underground Projects and facilities Blog US dark-matter detector heads underground The main component of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark-matter detector has lowered into the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota
Read article: Square Kilometre Array hit with further cost hike and delay Projects and facilities News Square Kilometre Array hit with further cost hike and delay Price of the huge telescope rises by €100m with construction set for 2021
Read article: China’s next big thing: a new fourth-generation synchrotron facility in Beijing Projects and facilities Opinion and reviews China’s next big thing: a new fourth-generation synchrotron facility in Beijing Work has just begun on China’s first fourth-generation synchrotron-radiation source. Robert P Crease gets a sneak preview of what’s in store
Read article: Advanced Photon Source set for $815m upgrade Projects and facilities News Advanced Photon Source set for $815m upgrade Improvements to the US synchrotron include a new storage ring as well as enhanced instrument beamlines
Read article: New Zealand pulls out of the Square Kilometre Array after benefits questioned Projects and facilities News New Zealand pulls out of the Square Kilometre Array after benefits questioned Government concludes that the benefits of membership do not outweigh the costs
Read article: The rise and rise of ‘new big science’ Projects and facilities Opinion and reviews The rise and rise of ‘new big science’ Robert P Crease describes a new kind of big science that's getting more complex, rather than just more large
Read article: Physicists in China unveil plans for underground gravitational-wave observatory Projects and facilities News Physicists in China unveil plans for underground gravitational-wave observatory Facility in central China would also test Einstein’s theory of general relativity to unprecedented precision