World-class Jodrell Bank is under threat and UK risks a physics brain drain

The Guardian reports that Jodrell Bank, the UK's world-class radio astronomy facility, faces a funding crisis that threatens to trigger a brain drain among leading scientists. Founded in nineteen forty-five by physicist Bernard Lovell at the University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank pioneered radio astronomy and built the Lovell telescope, which tracked Sputnik in nineteen fifty-seven. The threatened cuts would be a significant blow to British physics research and national competitiveness.

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