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Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.'s NIH slashed science funding across states that backed Trump
A KFF Health News analysis underscores how the NIH funding terminations have spared no part of the country, politically or ...
iPhones and GPS owe their existence to US government-funded research. What’s at stake with Trump cuts to university funding
Imagine a world without the internet, or GPS, MRNA vaccines or the touchscreen on your iPhone. The science and technology ...
Why Harvard gets federal funding and how it could make up for cuts
The battle at Harvard is the latest in the fight between the president and universities that has been threatening billions of ...
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Science Subsidy Trap: Why Public Research Funding Needs to End
with as much as 70 percent of science financed by corporations and charities. In the US, the difference is similarly massive. Of the $892 billion total invested in R&D in 2023, “the business sector ...
Harvard stands to lose $2.2 billion in federal funding. Researchers fear science will suffer
In a high-stakes standoff, President Donald Trump’s administration says it will freeze $2.2 billion in federal research ...
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iPhones and GPS owe their existence to US government-funded research. What’s at stake with Trump cuts to university funding
The science and technology that have become integral to our daily lives may never have existed, experts say, were it not for research funded by the federal government ... how much money a school ...