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U.S. government funding for scientific research, awarded by agencies like NSF, NIH, and DOE through grants and shared infrastructure.
MIT enrolled nearly 500 fewer graduate students this fall, down 20% from 2024, after federal research awards fell $100 million, its president said. Sally Kornbluth said the school admits cautiously so no Ph.D. student runs out of funding midway.
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President Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion Congress approved, including $28 million in HHS research grants, with five days left in the fiscal year. Congress's auditor calls the tactic illegal, and the Supreme Court's one ruling on it rested on foreign-affairs powers absent from domestic grants.
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A five-year, $3.3 million project led at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will test whether the biology that builds sea sponge skeletons can break silicon-rich industrial waste apart gently enough to free the minerals inside.
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Phillip Alberti told a National Academies roundtable that support for health equity moved with the question's wording. He quoted the figure for one subgroup answering one version. The size of the movement stays unquantified.
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The Quantum Genesis Q Competition asks companies for machines that run hundreds of millions of fault-tolerant operations on at least 100 logical qubits, and $200 million of the $215 million sits in prize pools.
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Michigan State and the University of Hawaii are placing ocean-bottom sensors on the Alaskan-Aleutian subduction zone, where batteries and atomic clocks replace the solar panels and GPS that a land station would use, to record how the fault behaves now.
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