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Trump Order Would Give Political Appointees Power over Science Funding Decisions
August 12, 20254 min readTrump Order Gives Political Appointees Vast Powers over Research GrantsResearchers are alarmed that an expansive executive order issued by...
mRNA Vaccine Tech Could Transform Medicine and Cure Diseases. RFK, Jr....
Why mRNA Vaccines Are So Revolutionary—And What’s at Stake if We Lose ThemSpeed and flexibility have made mRNA a blockbuster technologyBy Stephanie Pappas...
Could RFK Jr’s move to pull mRNA vaccine funding be a...
Getty ImagesmRNA vaccines were heralded as a medical marvel that saved lives during the Covid pandemic, but now the US is pulling back...
Can U.S. Math Research Survive NSF Funding Cuts?
Mathematics research typically requires few materials. To explore the secrets of prime numbers, investigate unimaginable shapes or elucidate other fundamental mysteries of our...
US senators exempt HIV/Aids funding from planned spending cuts
Republicans in the US Senate have said they will spare the US-backed HIV/Aids programme Pepfar from cuts, amid a larger effort to reduce...
How Trump’s Federal Funding Cuts Are Hurting Early-Career Researchers and American...
As a young doctoral researcher at a university in the southern U.S., Camilo felt like he was finally closing in on his dream...
New Zealand halts funding for Cook Islands over China deals
New Zealand has paused millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over wide-ranging deals that its smaller Pacific neighbour had made...
World Bank Ends Its Ban on Funding Nuclear Power Projects
The world’s largest and most influential development bank said on Wednesday it would lift its longstanding ban on funding nuclear power projects.The decision...
White House Launches Another Assault on Science Funding, Targeting NSF, EPA
CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration is working on a new effort to both weaken Congress’ grip on the federal budget and freeze billions...
Trump administration seeks to pull up to $100m in Harvard funding
The Trump administration will direct US federal agencies to review their grants to Harvard University to potentially end or redistribute funding, as part...