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Dave Schroeder, director of national security initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said defense research funding has increased as other agencies cut funding to the university.
Lasers are everywhere. Whether for barcode scanners, hair removal treatments or fiber-optic internet connections, these beams of light power our everyday lives. Their history dates back to Einstein’s theories in the 1910s and experiments funded by the U ...
2025 was a hard year for science. The Trump administration upended federal funding for all kinds of scientific pursuits, slashing budgets across... Science funding was hit in 2025. What does that mean for the future? JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Hey there, it's ...
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) future is in limbo as President Trump pushes for more budget cuts and his nominee to helm the research agency awaits Senate confirmation. Since Trump’s return to the White House,
The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.
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NASA head Isaacman endures congressional criticism amid science, other cuts in proposed Trump budget
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has been avoiding questions about severe cuts proposed to the agency’s budget by President Donald Trump since it was revealed just as NASA was focusing its attention
The unsettled and dynamic pause in federal grants ordered recently has a wide swath of consequences. Each consequence deserves attention; we focus here on science funding. Consider the critical questions: What therapies best treat adolescent depression?
That’s due largely to the policies of one man: President Donald Trump. The cuts his administration made last year to federal science programs undercut a key piece of Holland’s business, a small technology company named Wildlife Computers. Holland said sales to federal agencies such as NOAA dropped 30 percent between 2024 and 2025 — a precipitous drop after the company had spent decades ...
About a year ago, it seemed the sky was falling for American scientific research. The Trump administration last February cut thousands of workers at federal science agencies, squeezed the flow of grant money to universities and tried to slash funding for ...