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Science 5 January 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5501, p. 72
DOI: 10.1126/science.10.1126/SCIENCE.291.5501.72
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Keeping the Beat in a Noisy World

Richard Stone

MOSCOW--Vladimir Braginsky and his research group have built the world's steadiest pendulum here in a Stalin-era bomb shelter. Braginsky and his device are at the vanguard of an effort to tune in to gravitational waves from space. Unlike his colleagues building a detector in Kazan (see main text), the sharp-witted Moscow State University professor has thrown in his lot with a major Western project, LIGO.

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