Mark Thomson takes the reins at the CERN particle-physics lab, which recently received $1bn in private donations for its next collider project, as Michael Banks reports Bigger and better: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN will shut down later this year to make way for a major upgrade – the High-Luminosity LHC (courtesy: CERN) The CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva has received $1bn from private donors towards the construction of the Future Circular Collider (FCC). The cash marks the first tim...