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In case you didn’t know, the title is just a straightforward edit of Kundera’s famous novel title.

Since I assume you would be interested to know, this quote seems almost certainly misattributed to Einstein and seems to have been made up by Ram Dass [1]. Though I would be happy …

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

I’m glad this kind of work is getting highlighted on HN, but this is an extremely misleading title, to the point of being outright false. As often happens, this appears to be due t…

Your link seems unrelated to the topic of this article? I gave the line items for the research conducted in the OP. A good faith reading of your comment leads me to guess you might…

If you think this is cool/valuable, I just want to point out that this work is being paid for by the DOE Office of Science (BES division), uses the NSF National High Magnetic Field…

Making progress on these key issues in galaxy evolution and black hole growth is exactly the kind of research that will not happen (or at minimum be extremely limited) under the cu…

Thanks for this earlier article. From there it seems that the most staff losses are at Goddard, which is largely focused on science, not launch capabilities. So this unfortunately …

Does anyone have access to a copy of the NASA statement on this that was shared with the media? It makes a big difference where in NASA these people were employed - this is the dif…

This is already how astronomy, and specifically cosmology, research works in the US (and most other places). Data is made public within a short period of obtaining it on a schedule…

Newly released first look images from the largest astronomical camera ever made, at Rubin Observatory. There is an interactive image that you can pan around and zoom into and 2 vid…

Here is the preprint [1]. From a quick glance, the authors look only at a small (relative to the overall size of the universe) region of space and study the emission from the gas b…