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Gran Sasso: Chamber of physics

The world's largest underground laboratory has been a success story for Italian science. But 30 years after construction began, its future is uncertain.

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Nosengo, N. Gran Sasso: Chamber of physics. Nature 485, 435–438 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/485435a

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