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b'\\u201cSorry, closed for business.\\u201d 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.\\nSo just what do we lose when public funds for science fade? The tools for answering big questions about our universe for one, says a NASA scientist \\u2026 while one of this year\\u2019s Nobel Prize winners fears that it is driving our young researchers to pursue their work overseas.\\nYet one scientist says public funding isn\\u2019t even necessary; privatizing science would be more productive.\\nPlus, an award-winning public-private research project changes the way we use GPS \\u2026 and a BBC reporter on the fate of international projects when Americans hang up their lab coats.\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nJill Mikucki \\u2013 WISSARD principal investigator and a microbiologist at the University of Tennessee\\n\\n\\nMax Bernstein \\u2013 Lead for research at NASA\\u2019s Science Mission Directorate\\n\\n\\nJames Rothman \\u2013 Professor and chairman of the department of cell biology at Yale University, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine\\n\\n\\nAlexandre Bayen \\u2013 Civil engineer and computer scientist, University of California, Berkeley\\n\\n\\nPat Michaels \\u2013 Director for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute\\n\\n\\nRoland Pease \\u2013 BBC science reporter\\n\\nDescripci\\xf3n en espa\\xf1ol\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'