The future of the International Linear Collider

Science: Efforts to develop the International Linear Collider (ILC), a 40-kilometer-long, straight-shot particle smasher, have taken some thumps in the past 16 months. But like a seasoned pugilist, the ILC has rolled with the blows, project leaders say. "We've been slowed down," says Barry Barish, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who leads the ILC Global Design Effort (GDE). Still, he says, "in terms of the threat of it being turned off, I don't think there's much chance of that.

[From Whither the International Linear Collider? Science]