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Katherine Laliotis is a freelance science writer and Ph.D. candidate in astrophysics. She often covers stories at the intersection of science and society.

Trump seems intent on freezing out professional scientists, especially those with strong academic research backgrounds.

Despite a recent request from Trump, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were already scheduled to return to ...

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President Donald Trump’s sudden move to freeze federal grants is hitting states where people are struggling to recover from ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...