U.S. Ends Support for CMB-S4 Project to Study Cosmic Inflation
Amid simmering anxiety about the future of federally funded science, the U.S. government has quietly withdrawn support for cosmology’s next premier project, an experiment that would have given us the best read yet of the strangest chapter in our cosmic origin story. Called CMB-S4—or Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4—the project would have used a suite…
