{"id":79159,"date":"2026-07-02T05:30:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/knockin-radio-telescope-may-shut-amid-funding-cuts-scientists-fear\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:30:57","slug":"knockin-radio-telescope-may-shut-amid-funding-cuts-scientists-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/knockin-radio-telescope-may-shut-amid-funding-cuts-scientists-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Knockin radio telescope may shut amid funding cuts, scientists fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A radio telescope in Shropshire with a 25m (82ft) diameter dish, could be at risk of closing because of proposed cuts in national science funding.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The site in Knockin, near Oswestry, is part of e-MERLIN (Enhanced Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network), a globally significant group of seven sites across the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8e50x1r237o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is expected to reduce funding<\/a> across particle physics, astronomy and physics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The organisation has been approached for comment on the proposals, which have prompted North Shropshire MP Helen Morgan to meet groups who are concerned about potential impact on them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liberal Democrat Morgan has also met with world-leading physicist Prof Brian Cox, who warned that the cuts could be as high \u00a3162m, roughly 30% of particle physics, astronomy and nuclear physics research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a real concern that the researchers that use those radio telescopes will be the people that get the chop,&#8221; Morgan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That equipment will fall out of use, and we&#8217;ll lose all that talent and all that kind of world-leading research from Britain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0qy3v15l98o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A radio telescope in Shropshire with a 25m (82ft) diameter dish, could be at risk of closing because of proposed cuts in national science funding. The site in Knockin, near Oswestry, is part of e-MERLIN (Enhanced Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network), a globally significant group of seven sites across the UK. However, the Science and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[685,661,1732,21080,313,1924,1472,2031],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79161,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79159\/revisions\/79161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}