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Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency. But funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health were presaged in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership,” a conservative plan for governing that Trump said he knew nothing […]

February 24, 2025 3 min read A Derecho Damaged Skyscrapers More Than A Hurricane Did A powerful derecho last year caused more damage to Houston’s tallest buildings than Hurricane Beryl. Scientists wanted to know why By Chelsea Harvey & E&E News Shattered and boarded up windows are seen on the side of the Wells Fargo

When my son was three years old, he told me one day after preschool that he didn’t want to play with me because I was Black. He went on; Black people are mean, he said, and he only wanted to play with his dad because my husband was white, like him. We were shocked and

Black women in the U.S. are close to 40 percent more likely to die of breast cancer than white women and twice as likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 40. The disparity adds to an alarming trend of women increasingly being diagnosed with breast cancer in early adulthood and middle

Measles Outbreaks, Asteroid Risks and Fish Friends In this week’s news roundup, we cover activity from the black hole at our galaxy’s center and a troubling measles outbreak in Texas. By Allison Parshall, Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi & Naeem Amarsy Anaissa Ruiz Tejada/Scientific American [CLIP: Theme music] Happy Monday, listeners. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly,

Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are overstretched, pausing other important work as they race to limit the spread of this highly contagious virus. Since the outbreak emerged three weeks ago, the Texas health department has confirmed 90 cases with 16 hospitalizations,

February 21, 2025 3 min read Health and Safety Agency Purged “Diversity” Documents, But They Weren’t about DEI OSHA webpages removed for containing the word “diversity” had no relation to gender or racial diversity By Ariel Wittenberg & E&E News Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an arm of the Labor Department, Washington D.C. CLIMATEWIRE

Imagine you’ve just slammed a door on your finger. More often than not, this sudden jolt of pain elicits a vocal response. Maybe you exclaim “ouch!” or let out a cry or loud groan. But do the sounds we make in such moments differ across cultures? Humans are remarkably vocally expressive. We not only speak

It’s February 2025. The world feels like complete chaos, and it’s hard to step away from the news. Maybe your body feels tight, and perhaps your mind is racing. Take a deep breath, then keep reading. It isn’t just you: lots of people have expressed that they have felt overwhelmed and burned out from the

Our teenagers are in trouble. Headlines have been ringing loud alarms around adolescent mental health, and the data are sobering. In 2023, 40 percent of high school students surveyed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they persistently felt hopeless or sad in the past year. Nine percent had attempted suicide. Some of