Tiny British lab challenging collider project

SCIENTISTS working from a tiny laboratory at the bottom of Britain’s deepest mine could beat a multi-billion-pound Swiss project to crack the mystery of creation.

The team hope to pinpoint dark matter — the cosmic glue that is thought to bind together the universe.

If they succeed, they could snatch some of the glory from scientists operating the €4.4 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is switched on today.