Summary: <p>“Sorry, closed for business.” That sign hung on doors of national laboratories when the US government shut down. What that meant for one Antarctic researcher: her critically important work was left out in the cold.</p> <p>So just what do we lose when public funds for science fade? The tools for answering big questions about our universe for one, says a <span class="caps">NASA</span> scientist … while one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners fears that it is driving our young researchers to pursue their work overseas.</p> <p>Yet one scientist says public funding isn’t even necessary; privatizing science would be more productive.</p> <p>Plus, an award-winning public-private research project changes the way we use <span class="caps">GPS</span> … and a <span class="caps">BBC</span> reporter on the fate of international projects when Americans hang up their lab coats.</p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://web.bio.utk.edu/micro/faculty/mikucki.html">Jill Mikucki</a></strong> – <span class="caps">WISSARD</span> principal investigator and a microbiologist at the University of Tennessee</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/about-us/organization-and-leadership/office-of-the-associate-administrator/dr-max-bernstein/">Max Bernstein</a></strong> – Lead for research at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.chem.yale.edu/faculty/rothman.html">James Rothman</a></strong> – Professor and chairman of the department of cell biology at Yale University, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://bayen.eecs.berkeley.edu">Alexandre Bayen</a></strong> – Civil engineer and computer scientist, University of California, Berkeley</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels">Pat Michaels</a></strong> – Director for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://journalisted.com/roland-pease">Roland Pease</a></strong> – <span class="caps">BBC</span> science reporter</li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/programa-de-radio-instituto-seti-cerrando-la-ciencia/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p>
