LHC to end 2022 data-taking season two weeks early to save on electricity, among other measures.
As energy prices spike as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, possibly causing a global economic downturn and stoking fears of rolling blackouts — especially in Europe — science laboratories are not being spared. The situation has raised particular alarm at CERN, the Europe’s particle-physics lab outside Geneva, Switzerland, which already has massive energy bills in normal years. Read more in Nature.