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LIGO’s underdog cousin ready to enhance gravitational-wave hunt

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It missed the historic discovery, but the Virgo lab in Italy is now primed to extend LIGO’s reach and precision.

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Castelvecchi, D. LIGO’s underdog cousin ready to enhance gravitational-wave hunt. Nature 542, 146–147 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/542146a

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