This month, all eyes in the high-energy-physics community will be on the long-awaited launch of CERN's new particle collider. But US budget cuts and an uncertain job market mean the field has little else to celebrate. Eric Hand reports.
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Hand, E. Collision course. Nature 455, 258–259 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7210-258a
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