Number 182 (Story #3), June 8, 1994 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein RUSSIA'S 3-TeV PROTON ACCELERATOR, under construction at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Protvino, may not be completed. Like many scientific ventures in the former Soviet Union, the project is starved for funds. Much of the accelerator's 21-km tunnel has been built and many of the needed magnets have been tested and stockpiled, but there now appears to be no more money for finishing the machine. Other physics labs, such as the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) and the Kapitsa Institute (prominent in low-temperature research) in Moscow are close to collapse. At the Joint Institute of Nuclear Physics (JINR) in Dubna, things are somewhat better, partly because of the continued collaboration with scientists from the former Soviet republics and from Germany. (Science, 27 May.)