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Nuclear Proliferation Is Quietly Reshaping Who Gets to Do Science

The DOE's $320 million funding surge looks like a win for basic science. Look at what is attached to it: accelerated reactor timelines, revised radiation safety standards, and a $500 million security-research pool shaped by geopolitical fear rather than scientific priority. The money is real. So are the conditions.

By Dr. Nadia Osei · 3 min read

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NASA Knows What It Values, and Science Is Not It

Congress blocked NASA's proposed 24% science budget cut, and the headlines called it a victory. Then NASA quietly dissolved its independent scientific advisory groups. The budget fight was the distraction.

By Crash Davis · 3 min read

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Political Appointees Are Now Peer Reviewers at the NIH

Congress saved the NIH budget on paper. The administration is dismantling it through administrative mechanisms most people have never heard of. The real threat is not the funding number; it is who now decides which science gets funded.

By Dr. Nadia Osei · 3 min read

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Neutrinos Did Not Prove We Exist, But They Got Closer

On March 3, physicists published the best evidence yet that neutrinos and antineutrinos break symmetry in ways that could explain why matter exists at all. The result is real. The proof is not here yet, and the experiment that could deliver it still needs to be built.

By Vera Santos · 3 min read