The future of a major UW-Madison science center — the Synchrotron Radiation Center — is in jeopardy after it was targeted to lose its annual federal funding under President Barack Obama?s proposed budget. The facility — a baseball diamond-sized electron accelerator in Stoughton — attracts researchers from all over the world and has contributed to the science of computer chips, Alzheimer?s disease and fuel sources, according to Synchrotron scientists.
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