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In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

296 points · 107 comments · danso

oofbey · 1790523959 · focus · HN ↗
Why did they work in a motel room? The article kinda implies it had something to do with Trump’s funding cuts, but unless I missed something the connection wasn’t made explicit.
1. chrisandchris · 1790529999 · focus · HN ↗
  > The team — brought together, in part, by disruptions and despair over the Trump administration’s freezes to federal science funding — [...]
  1. specproc · 1790532811 · focus · HN ↗
    I dunno about the states, but in most parts of the UK, it's considerably cheaper than 80 dollars a day to rent a small workspace.
    NetMageSCW · 1790535964 · focus · HN ↗
    Near the beach?
    specproc · 1790583615 · focus · HN ↗
    The cheapest, check out Blackpool

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