"Europe's Ambitious €20bn Plan to Uncover Universe's Secrets with Giant Particle Collider"

Europe's CERN laboratory has unveiled plans for the Future Circular Collider (FCC), a massive new particle accelerator that would surpass the Large Hadron Collider in size and power. The FCC, if approved, would start operations around the middle of the century and conduct its highest-energy collisions by 2070. With a proposed cost of $17 billion for its first stage, the FCC aims to explore the fundamental forces of the universe, study the properties of matter at the smallest scale and highest energy, and potentially confirm the existence of theorized particles. The project is set to undergo further feasibility studies and a decision on its construction is expected in 2028.