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U.S. Ends Support for CMB-S4 Project to Study Cosmic Inflation


Researchers hoped CMB-S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets

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