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Higgs Discovery at Risk from New Funding Rules | Anchorage News
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The hunt for why particles have mass—culminating in the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson—was a triumph of global science, uniting rivals and nations in a decades-long quest. Now, a new U.S. funding proposal threatens to unravel that model by letting political appointees decide research priorities, potentially choking international collaboration and innovation. Scientists warn it could derail breakthroughs from cancer to cosmology, while critics call it an overreach that politicizes science. The final decision looms, with thousands of scientists sounding the alarm.
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