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Last month I took a mile-deep elevator ride beneath South Dakota to visit the cutting-edge neutrino and dark-matter detectors there. Reporter Wendy Pitlick interviewed me about what I saw, and what it tells us about the invisible universe around us. bhpioneer.com/local_news/acc…

I was proud to edit this new essay by David Shiffman in American Scientist. Many people ridicule public funding of basic research, often unaware of what it achieves. Shiffman discusses how to explain its value--and why the looming cuts will be so devastating. americanscientist.org/article/%E2%80…

The NSF’s proposed FY26 budget request includes a staggering 50% reduction in funding. It’s alarming that leaders can’t- or won’t -grasp the long-term damage this will do to our research, innovation, and the future of America’s scientific workforce.

The NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory will make the most detailed time-lapse images of the universe ever created, mapping dark matter & spotting billions of transient cosmic events. Incidentally, it is also taking breathtaking images. First looks, out now: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-fir…

You'll be hearing a lot about the amazing new NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory observatory today. Here's a peek at its most important feature: an unusual optical design that gives it a HUGE field of view, allowing it to scan the entire visible universe, over and over. lsst.org/about/tel-site…