NEWS BRIEFS: Trump’s Carnage: U.S. Science

From NATURE: “More than 7,800 research grants terminated or frozen. Some 25,000 scientists and personnel have left research-overseeing agencies. Proposed budget cuts of 35% — amounting to US$32 billion. These are just a few ways Donald Trump has downsized and disrupted US science since returning to the White House last January. As his administration seeks to reshape US research and development, it has substantially scaled back and restricted what science the country pursues and the workforce that runs the federal scientific enterprise.” Read more here.

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