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Science 5 January 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5501, pp. 70 - 72
DOI: 10.1126/science.10.1126/SCIENCE.291.5501.70
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Tatars' Saucy Project Takes on the World

Richard Stone

KAZAN--A novel project here aims to do something never done before: use lasers to detect space-time ripples stirred up by distant binary pulsars. The Kazan team members hope their $1 million tabletop experiment, the first phase of which they aim to undertake this fall, will put the Republic of Tatarstan in the high-stakes race to detect gravitational waves. But some experts doubt this former Soviet David can beat the better funded Goliaths of the United States, Europe, and Japan.

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