Latest science cuts

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According to the Guardian, the government are cutting funding for four major science projects, including two near-neighbours:

[The projects] include a national supercomputing service for developing drugs and modelling climate change; an international computer science centre at the Daresbury research and innovation campus in Cheshire; redevelopment of the Institute for Animal Health; and upgrades to facilities at the Rothera research station in Antarctica.

Which sounds to me like they're withdrawing funding from the Son of HECToR project. And as if that wasn't bad enough for climate research, it sounds as though NERC are going to be short of money too:

The Natural Environment Research Council, a major funder of environmental research, has ringfenced money for three major projects: the Halley Antarctic base, a replacement for the research ship, Discovery, and building work at its Keyworth site. "Aside from these projects, it will be very difficult to support new capital projects in the coming years unless additional funds can be secured," a spokeswoman said.

Doubleplusungood.