🪐 $15 billion 'atom smasher' to find missing 95% of the universe

Plus: Zaha Hadid Architects release world's first hydrogen boating stations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 February 06, 2024 | [Read Online]( Researchers at Switzerland's largest particle accelerator propose a £12 billion ($15 billion) Future Circular Collider (FCC) to uncover atomic particles and enhance our understanding of the universe. Such a mission makes sense considering we only know a tiny fraction of it — apparently, we’ve yet to explore around 95 percent of the cosmos. 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