🫡 U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation

「 The U.S. government has canceled a proposed $900 million project to study in unprecedented detail the afterglow of the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. Known as CMB-S4, the project envisioned new arrays of ultrasensitive microwave telescopes at the South Pole and in Chile’s Atacama Desert 」

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-abandons-hunt-signal-cosmic-inflation

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