Judge blocks Trump administration’s science research funding cuts

Judge blocks Trump administration’s science research funding cuts

BOSTON — A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump ‘s administration from making drastic cuts to research funding provided by the National Science Foundation. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston struck down on Friday a policy change that could have stripped universities of tens of millions of dollars in research funding. The universities … Read more

Trump and RFK Jr: NIH medical research faces cuts, while ex-director works to restore trust

Trump and RFK Jr: NIH medical research faces cuts, while ex-director works to restore trust

Francis Collins has overseen some of the most revolutionary science of the last few decades. He led the Human Genome Project that sequenced the entire human genome by 2003, and then in 2009, he became director of the National Institutes of Health, where he served under three presidents and led the agency’s research on a … Read more