New Republic: At a Thursday budget hearing in the Senate Space, Science, and Competitiveness subcommittee, Ted Cruz--long known as an informed, astute scientific observer, specifically regarding climate--insisted that NASA "get back to the hard sciences". In his mind, that means the agency should focus on more space exploration and less Earth science. [T]here are a lot of people studying Texas soil, youve got a whole Department of Agriculture that spends a lot of time and energy studying the soil in Texas and...