Physics World Big Science Briefing 2024

Welcome to Physics World Big Science Briefing, which includes news, features and opinion about the latest developments and issues in “big science”.

Over the past decades, big science has become bigger than ever be it planning larger particle colliders, fusion tokamaks or space observatories. In this briefing, Elizabeth Pollitzer, co-founder and director of Portia, explains why we need gender equality in big science and Gianluigi Botton from the Diamond Light Source in the UK discusses managing large-scale research infrastructures. We also examine what a potential muon collider might look like and much more.

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