Argentina’s move to woo Trump has derailed South America’s largest radio telescope | Science | AAAS
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U.S.-Chinese tensions have left nearly complete observatory in limbo, jeopardizing research into pulsars and other celestial objects
27 Oct 2025 4:10 PM ET By María de los Ángeles Orfila
Access to Science.org has been restored, I don't know for how long.
I was attracted by the news that the Trump administration is cutting federal agencies' subscriptions to scientific journals published by Springer, including Nature. Well, the direction of the Trump administration's vector is clear: militant ignorance and the destruction of scientific institutions.
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27 Jun 20257:41 PM ET By Jeffrey Brainard
read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-cuts-subscriptions-springer-nature-journals
The Republican-controlled Congress is showing signs of resistance to Trump's plans to cut the research budget for agricultural research. I don't think this is unexpected. The U.S. agricultural industry is a powerful lobbyist and very likely relies on government-sponsored research. Expensive research can be afforded by large corporations and agricultural holdings, but many independent farmers cannot.
13 Jun 2025 5:40 PM ET By Dan Charles
Read more: Congress shows first signs of resisting Trump’s plans to slash science budgets | Science | AAAS
The cuts in scientific spending in the United States under Trump are jeopardizing the gravitational wave astronomy project. It is planned to close one of the gravitational wave detectors, which are located in the States. There is still one left in Europe. The closure of one of the detectors means that the resolution of this complex of devices will be greatly reduced. The situation can be saved by the construction of a gravitational wave detector in Asia, by such large countries as China and India. But it seems that the new round of the arms race, provoked by Russia, puts an end to these wishes.
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10 Jun 2025 5:35 PM ET By Adrian Cho
It is important to understand that there is no "gold standard" in science. It is just a catchy word, because Trump loves everything golden. In fact, science is a very difficult and hard business, like any other human business, and there are no miracles in it, but there is hard and painstaking mental work. There is an old saying "there are no royal roads in science", which means that there are no easy steps even to simple scientific conclusions. The fact that the commission's report contains references to non-existent works only speaks of the incompetence of this commission and its harm to society (not only American).
30 May 2025 4:50 PM ET By Phie Jacobs
1. The Trump administration's policies are exacerbating the crisis in the US national academic community by causing job losses for scientists who receive government funding. I read how the economic crisis in the USSR began in the 70s, which began with an unpublicized reduction in scientific positions and departments at the institutes of the Academy of Sciences, in particular at Baykov's IMET [in the book "Baykov's IMET - 80 years", ed. by Academician Solntsev, "Interkontakt Nauka", 2018]. These events seemed similar to me. I hope the US can survive these difficulties.
2 Jun 2025, 4:50 PM ET By Meredith Wadman
read here: https://www.science.org/content/article/national-academies-staggering-trump-cuts-brink-dramatic-downsizing
2. Experimental muon magnetism turns out to be exactly as predicted by theory.
3 Jun 2025, 12:00 PM ET By Adrian Cho
Read here: https://www.science.org/content/article/long-running-physics-experiment-dashes-hope-new-particles-and-forces
3. Octopus can grow two from one severed tentacle (video)
2 Jun 2025, 3:30 PM ET By Sahas Mehra
Read here: https://www.science.org/content/article/octopus-grew-ninth-arm-which-soon-developed-mind-its-own
1. Nuclear safety must be approached with great caution. Low doses of radiation are a deadly Russian roulette: some will be lucky, some will not. But if Trump, with his incompetence and chaos, interferes, then it is better not to change anything at all.
2. The abolition of scholarships means that graduates will not remain in universities, which can undermine continuous succession and scientific schools. Business will certainly benefit from the influx of young personnel, but in the short term (within a generation), and then it will also be difficult: quality students will be reduced due to the lack of good teachers. Do the administrations think in such long time intervals?
Read More: https://www.science.org/content/article/will-nsf-s-flagship-training-program-survive-under-trump
In February, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump was inaugurated, Rebekah Tromble launched a program to advise scientists and journalists targeted for intimidation and harassment. But she announced it quietly, fearing the very kind of attacks the initiative was meant to counter. “We were truly concerned that trying to draw too much attention to our work would jeopardize our funding,” says the George Washington University social scientist. “It’s a bit counterintuitive for a program that is actually trying to reach and help people.”
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President Donald Trump today asked Congress to make massive and unprecedented cuts to the 2026 budgets of major federal science agencies.
The request calls for cutting spending by 37% at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and more than 50% at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the country’s two major science funders. The White House also seeks to eliminate most federal spending on climate and ecological research and would cut NASA’s science budget by more than half, killing major planetary missions. Other agencies would face similarly harsh cuts.
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read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-s-proposed-budget-would-mean-disastrous-cuts-science
It is almost certainly the most consequential 100 days that scientists in the United States have experienced since the end of World War II.
Since taking his oath of office on 20 January, President Donald Trump has unleashed an unprecedented rapid-fire campaign to remake—some would say demolish—vast swaths of the federal government’s scientific and public health infrastructure. His administration has erased entire agencies that fund research; fired or pushed out thousands of federal workers with technical backgrounds; terminated research and training grants and contracts worth billions of dollars; and banned new government funding for activities it finds offensive, from efforts to diversify the scientific workforce to studies of the health needs of LGBTQ people. The frenetic onslaught has touched nearly every field—from archaeology to zoology, from deep-sea research to deep-space science. And it has left researchers from postdocs to lab heads feeling bewildered, worried—and angry. Many fear that in just 14 weeks, Trump has irreversibly damaged a scientific enterprise that took many decades to build, and has long made the U.S. the envy of the world.
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read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/100-days-that-shook-u-s-science
With a torrent of executive orders, President Donald Trump has turned U.S. science upside down in his first 100 days, and the onslaught isn’t likely to end soon. Trump shows no sign of backing off his push to shrink the federal science workforce, end programs he considers wasteful or objectionable, and bring universities to heel by canceling their government research grants and contracts. But factors outside the White House could slow or drastically accelerate these efforts in the coming months, as Congress and the courts get a chance to embrace—or push back against—Trump’s science agenda.
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read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/after-100-days-upheaval-what-s-next-u-s-science
On a cool, sunny, mid-April day, the cheerful redbuds and other flowering trees amid the sprawling labs on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) main campus belied the pervasive gloom. Nearly 3 months into President Donald Trump’s administration, NIH in-house scientists and other workers were reeling from mass layoffs of colleagues; the removal of leaders; and limits on travel, communication, and purchasing that have shut the agency off from the outside world, hamstrung experiments, and crushed the community’s spirits.
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read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-insiders-trump-dismantling-and-destroying-everything
After freezing all grants to Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities that President Donald Trump’s administration believes have not done enough to combat antisemitism on their campuses. The move will both block new funding and halt payments to investigators currently working on NIH projects.
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International scientists rethink U.S. conference attendance
Are terminations of NIH grants wasting billions of taxpayer dollars?
NSF has awarded almost 50% fewer grants since Trump took office
The tariffs imposed today by the United States on its three largest trading partners could not only drive up the cost of goods for U.S. consumers, but also hit researchers by raising prices for scientific equipment.
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On 13 February, a research entomologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was among the first, receiving an email after the close of business hours saying they were being “removed” from what they describe as a dream job, studying a key problem in agriculture science. The change had gone into effect 14 minutes before the email arrived. “The letter said I was being let go due to poor performance, which is nonsensical since they invited me to apply for a promotion just the other month,” the stunned researcher says.
read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/mass-firings-decimate-u-s-science-agencies
