* Astronomy

A massive $310m upgrade to the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia has been approved, which will provide physicists with beams of 12 GeV electrons to study the fundamental structure of protons and neutrons. The upgrade will allow scientists to investigate the origins of why quarks fundamental building blocks of matter do not exist on their own.
Jefferson Lab officials say the upgrades are expected to be finished in 2015.

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