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Published online 12 September 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1105
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Gravity-wave hunt stalled
Accident sidelines Virgo detector throughout the summer.
Physicists rejoiced this week at the successful test of their massive new particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, near Geneva, Switzerland. But some 450 kilometres south-east — and making a lot less of a hullabaloo about things — another major physics experiment is working to recover from a debilitating accident.
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