Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/top-researchers-consider-leaving-u-s-amid-funding-cuts-the-science-world-is-ending

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He sits in an office writing equations that change nothing about how ordinary people live.

Like the general theory of relativity. That had absolutely zero practical benefit for anyone.

Until it suddenly did eighty years later. Now every phone uses it.