Italian physicists reacted with anger to proposed cuts to the country's research funding. Particularly hard hit would be the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), which has been slated to absorb nearly half of the ?120m reduction in the research ministry's budget as outlined in a decree on 6 July. The timing of the cuts came just two days after the announcement that a Higgs-boson-like particle had been observed at the CERN laboratory in Geneva.
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