Private Donor Gives Fermilab $5 Million

It’s the only par­ti­cle physics lab in the US, but Con­gress has been cut­ting the bud­get of Fer­mi­lab to the point they were lay­ing off staff and cut­ting back hours. Now a pri­vate donor has come up $5 mil­lion, enough to get every­one back to full­time (but not to save all the jobs). Fer­mi­lab is try­ing to dis­cover the Higgs boson before it’s found by the more pow­er­ful Large Hadron Col­lider at CERN, this can only help.

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