Science funding cuts will harm Britain’s global standing | Letters
Readers respond to an editorial about the threat to research funding, including plans to close the Jodrell Bank ObservatoryYour editorial rightly criticises the decision to cease funding the Lovell telescope from March 2028 (The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics, 31 July). There are additional reasons why this decision is so shortsighted. Modern astronomy is no longer simply physics. It brings together physics, chemistry, biology and computing to understand how…
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