President Sally Kornbluth took to GBH’s “Boston Public Radio” (BPR) to discuss the value of scientific research amid cuts to federal funding and the new endowment tax impacting MIT and other universities. In her wide-ranging conversation with hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan, Kornbluth highlighted ‘Curiosity on a mission,’ MIT’s support for quantum technology, artificial intelligence and research—and where to get soft serve ice cream. “The best science is scientists just following their instincts, trying to find the answers to fundamental questions,” said Kornbluth.Scientific discovery is born from a long sequence of experiments, funded largely by federal grants, “but it's not just scienti...