With Paul Allen’s announcement last month to support bioscience with a $100 million gift, yesterday's announcement of Yuri Milner’s plan to send a fleet of probes to Alpha Centauri with initial funding of…
Yuri Milner announces a plan to send a fleet of robot spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, provides initial funding of $100 million for research and development.
Following the news of the discovery of gravitational waves, The New York Times editorial board weighed in on the importance of basic scientific research as a journey of discovery rather…