The weak dollar is affecting US researchers working abroad and threatens American involvement in flagship projects say physicists at the CERN laboratory. Grants paid in dollars to researchers in Europe are now worth substantially less than they were a year ago. "It's hurting, and people are scrimping and making up for it in other ways," says Mike Tuts, a programme manager for the US collaborators on Atlas, a component of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, which will look for the Higgs boson, dubbed the God particle.
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