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Massachusetts Governor Proposes $400 Million for Colleges, Citing Federal ‘Uncertainty’

31 juillet 2025 à 18:58
The plan would help support research projects and jobs connected with colleges and universities in the state, which have faced funding cuts by the Trump administration.

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The plan by Gov. Maura Healey of Massachusetts would help support research jobs at universities and colleges in the state.

Major Study on Transgender Youth Health Care to Begin in U.K.

31 juillet 2025 à 12:09
Researchers at King’s College London will track the experiences of up to 3,000 children and teenagers who are being treated by Britain’s health service.

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King’s College London, one of the leading research institutions in Britain, has received government funding to carry out a long-term study into gender care for young people.

Trump Taps Climate Skeptics to Attack Science on Global Warming

31 juillet 2025 à 11:52
The agency asked five climate skeptics to write a report criticizing the consensus on global warming. Scientists are pointing out its errors.

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The Department of Energy in Washington, D.C.

Brown University Makes a Deal With the White House to Restore Funding

The deal, which will require Brown to spend $50 million, comes after two other Ivy League schools negotiated with the Trump administration to restore millions in research dollars.

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The campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I.

Key Hurricane-Monitoring Data Will Stay Online, Officials Say

30 juillet 2025 à 12:04
The Department of Defense said it no longer planned to shut down a program that makes satellite data publicly available to researchers and forecasters.

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According to the Navy, the data will now remain available until the sensors stop working or until the monitoring program formally ends next year.

Study May Undercut Idea That Cash Payments to Poor Families Help Child Development

28 juillet 2025 à 19:27
Rigorous new research appears to show that monthly checks intended to help disadvantaged children did little for their well-being, adding a new element to a dispute over expanded government aid.

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The test targeted children in their earliest years, leaving open the possibility that benefits will appear later, after they start school.

For 1st Time, Fires Are Biggest Threat to Forests’ Climate-Fighting Superpower

24 juillet 2025 à 08:00
Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests are becoming emitters in their own right.

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A wildfire in an area of National Forest Brasília in Brazil last September.

Climate Change Is Making Fire Weather Worse for World’s Forests

21 juillet 2025 à 17:05
Forest fires are on the rise globally. An increase in severe fire weather is largely responsible.

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Fires at Tatkin Lake in British Columbia, Canada, in July 2023.

A 900-Year-Old Typo May Unravel a Chaucer Mystery

15 juillet 2025 à 19:01
The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a scribe’s error deepened the confusion around it.
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