Nature Italy
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26th February 2023
Sardinia’s push to host the next big gravitational wave detector
When he visits Lula, a small mining village in the heart of Sardinia, physicist, Alessandro Cardini, tells the story of the Swiss and French villages around CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Until the 1950s they had fewer than 1,000 inhabitants each. Today their populations are more than ten times bigger, and the area hosts a vibrant international community. Cardini, a physicist at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Cagliari, explains to the...