President Donald Trump’s purge of diversity initiatives has affected both federal agencies and the institutions they fund, ...

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“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Rebecca Charbonneau is a historian at the American Institute of Physics and author of Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain.

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A climate office at the Department of Health and Human Services has been shuttered, and its staff was placed on ...

DOGE’s Elon Musk should turn his $2-trillion hatchet to wasteful and perilous U.S. nuclear weapons modernization plans ...

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The U.S. National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing ...

Two judges have ordered the Trump administration to lift a freeze on spending, including at the Environmental Protection ...