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RT @meredithwadman: "The small children, they die!" The costs of Donald Trump in Guinea, where the United States helped beat back malaria.….
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Foreign aid cuts are expected to cause a rise in malaria cases and deaths across sub-Saharan Africa
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RT @NewsfromScience: Research advocates are expressing alarm over a White House directive on federal grantmaking released yesterday that th….
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Researchers worried by plan giving political appointees more control over where funding goes
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RT @NewsfromScience: Exclusive: The National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S….
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Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists
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RT @NewsfromScience: Researchers’ chances of winning a grant from the National Institutes of Health have dropped under a new policy. https:….
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Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards
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RT @NewsfromScience: Staff at the National Science Foundation have sent their concerns about President Donald Trump’s administration to Con….
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Letter to key House Democrat follows declarations by scientists at NIH, EPA, and NASA
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RT @NewsfromScience: This newly discovered trilobite fossil was likely hung as a pendant from a necklace or bracelet—the first such trilobi….
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It’s the first example of this common fossil found in the ancient Roman world
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NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker | Science | AAAS
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Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists
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Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite | Science | AAAS
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Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants | Science | AAAS
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Republicans promise to work with Democrats to salvage defeated amendment
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RT @NewsfromScience: The U.S. government has canceled a proposed $900 million project to study in unprecedented detail the afterglow of the….
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Downsizing and high ratings did not save effort known as CMB-S4 
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RT @NewsfromScience: Understanding the origins of these mysterious seeps, sometimes called “fairy circles,” could help prospectors extract….
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Understanding the origins of mysterious seeps could help prospectors extract natural hydrogen fuel
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Over 8 years, sharks attacked 30 people around Reunion, killing 11, accounting for an extraordinary 18.5% of known global shark fatalities over that period -- and spurring an urgent research effort. | Science | AAAS
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After 11 deaths, Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean became a center for shark attack science
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“The new law will negatively affect further international collaborations of Russian chemists and other scientists, as many of them will prefer not to participate in such projects,” says one chemist
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Move will have a chilling effect and further isolate the country from the global scientific community, researchers say
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RT @NewsfromScience: NASA and India’s $1.5 billion NISAR mission promises global time lapses of the planet’s ever-changing land and ice. ht….
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NASA and India’s $1.5 billion NISAR mission promises global time lapses of the planet’s ever-changing land and ice
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Exclusive: NIH suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns | Science | AAAS
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Trump executive order leads to pauses on U.S.-funded research into TB, influenza, COVID-19, and other diseases, dismaying some scientists
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A key Senate spending committee has joined its House counterpart in rejecting deep cuts that President Donald Trump’s administration proposed for research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the 2026 fiscal year that begins on 1 October
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House spending committee has taken similar position on 2026 request
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RT @NewsfromScience: On 1 July, astronomers discovered 3I/ATLAS, just the third interstellar object seen passing through our Solar System.….
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In 2000, China-based scholars produced just 671 AI papers, but in 2024 their 23,695 AI-related publications topped the combined output of the United States (6378), the United Kingdom (2747), and the European Union (10,055).
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The country also leads in patent filings and the number of AI researchers
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