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US astronomy facing ‘extinction level’ event following Trump’s 2026 budget request

Physics World

Michael Kratsios , Trump’s science adviser and head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, sought to justify the administration’s planned cuts in a meeting at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on 19 May. But its non-defence budget will fall by 26% from $16.83bn to $12.48bn.

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Conflict Over A Blockbuster Farm Chemical

Circle of Blue

agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and legal scrutiny as the weedkiller Roundup, and its active ingredient, glyphosate. The scientific, legal, and political turmoil is weighing on Bayers top executives.

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‘Science Fair’ of Lost Research Protests Trump Cuts

Scientific American

“What’s hard about the politics of fighting for science is that it’s hard to tell people what they’re missing out on. Rosenberg was in the process of hiring team members to study methods of educating students about quantum technology when the news landed that her NSF money was cut.

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Organs on chips could make biomedical research more equitable

Nature

View author publications Search author on: PubMed Google Scholar Twitter Facebook Email Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Organ-on-a-chip technology, which uses microfluidic systems to culture cells in ways that mimic human physiology, could help to reduce scientists’ dependence on animal models (see Nature [link] 2025 ).

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Earth System Interventions for Sustainability

Legal Planet

Importantly (and often misunderstood), he meant not that we are gods, but instead that technologies have given humanity powers that had previously been exclusive to the gods. I thus wrote the paper “ Earth System Interventions as Technologies of the Anthropocene ,” which was published (open access!)

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Frontiers: Social Media and RSS

Frontiers

F Frontiers in Fungal Biology RSS @FrontFungalBio Frontiers in Food Science and Technology RSS @FrontFoodSciTec Frontiers in Forests and Global Change RSS @FrontSustain Frontiers in Future Transportation RSS @FrontFTransport.

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

Corporation Bayer Image Image Products pharmaceuticals, v eterinary drugs, diagnostic imaging, general and specialty medicines, women's health products, over-the-counter drugs, pesticides, seeds, plant biotechnology. Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).