* Astronomy

A multimillion-pound project to develop a new type of telescope, deemed to be "first-rate science", has been cancelled before its completion by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.
The Clover project is jointly run by the universities of Cardiff, Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester, where dozens of scientists have spent the past four years developing a telescope to measure cosmic microwave background radiation - the echoes of the Big Bang.

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Clover is an experiment to measure the polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background. It was approved for funding in late 2004, with the aim of having the full telescope operational by 2009. The project is jointly run by Cardiff University, Oxford University, the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and the University of Manchester.

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