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World's largest cosmic lab

BEIJING, JUNE 9. The world's largest cosmic laboratory, jointly funded by China and Italy, has been inaugurated in Yangbajain, Tibet.

The new lab, with a floor space of 10,000 sq.m, is set up inside the old Yangbajain cosmic ray research laboratory, established by Chinese and Japanese scientists in 1990.

The lab has been equipped with a 5,000 sq.m cosmic ray detector.

- PTI

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