In the loop.

The article reports on the latest measures being taken to boost the level of Great Britain engineering firms' involvement in research at Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN). Work at CERN just outside Geneva in Switzerland, deals simultaneously with both of these heady extremes, using some truly huge, record-breaking sized instruments to detect and track the most minute particles known to science. The sheer scale of the large hadron collider particle accelerator project has gained CERN much attention recently, with the laboratory's 50th anniversary being marked by simultaneous visits. INSET: Two firms with Cern deals.