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At the Forest Service, Turmoil Upends Seasonal Research Plans
Undark Magazine
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June 2, 2025
The research and development team at the U.S. Forest Service employs about 1,500 people full-time, a small but mighty faction inside an agency that, until recently, was 35,000 strong. The research it conducts spans everything from managing...
Life Science Consulting: Driving Innovation and Efficiency in Global Health
Life Sciences Review
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The life science consulting sector is at the forefront of future-critical business-enabling sectors shaping solutions in health and innovative biotechnology. Organizations increasingly choose to work with these specialized consulting agencies,...
With U.S. science in crisis, G7 researchers mount a candid defence
The Globe and Mail
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June 2, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Alain Gagnon, president of the Royal Society of Canada, poses for a portrait at the Universite de Quebec a Montreal in Montreal on May 30. Gagnon recently hosted a G7 summit for the G7 Academies, where they all agreed on...
Scientists Say: Caldera
Science News Explores
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June 2, 2025
Caldera (noun, “Kal-DER-ah”) A caldera is a type of crater. It forms when a volcano collapses after a massive eruption. When volcanoes erupt, material bursts from underground cavities. That material could be lava. It could also be vapor, dust and...
FORTOP UK partners with INXPECT to bring cutting-edge radar safety technology to the UK
Electrical Engineering
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June 2, 2025
Fortop Automation & Energy Control UK (fortop UK) has announced an exciting new partnership with Inxpect – a global leader in innovative radar-based industrial safety systems – a collaboration that will see fortop UK distributing Inxpect’s range...
Policymaking and ‘Gold Standard Science’ Via Fake Studies and Defunded Research Universities?
Inside Higher Ed
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“My Administration is committed to restoring a gold standard for science to ensure that federally funded research is transparent, rigorous, and impactful, and that Federal decisions are informed by the most credible, reliable, and impartial...
The Carbon Output of Trees May Be Overestimated, Say Researchers
Technology Networks
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New research reveals the amount of carbon dioxide released by trees into the atmosphere under a warming climate could be considerably less than currently predicted. Published in the prestigious journal Science today, the new findings are from an...
Dubai’s RDI Grant Initiative returns to fund groundbreaking research
Zawya
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Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) has opened applications for the second cycle of the Dubai Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Grant Initiative. The programme invites universities and research institutions across Dubai to submit high-impact...
Coral reefs face collapse as climate heats up, scientists warn
Sabah
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June 2, 2025
The fate of coral reefs has been written with a degree of certainty rare in climate science: at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming, most are expected to die. This is not a far-off scenario. Scientists predict that the...
Russian Scientists Develop Coating to Protect Aircraft Engines
Yemen News Agency SABA
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June 2, 2025
[Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:33:40 +0300] Moscow - (Saba): Scientists from the Ural Federal University and the Institute of Electrophysics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed an innovative coating made of silicon,...
Budget FY26: Tk200 crore allocation proposed to fund research on blue economy
The Business Standard
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June 2, 2025
The interim government is planning to allocate Tk200 crore for funding research on the blue economy in the upcoming fiscal year 2025-26 (FY26). Presenting the budget via a pre-recorded speech today (2 June), the adviser Finance Adviser Salehuddin...
Turning the Red Planet green? It's time to take terraforming Mars seriously, scientists say
Space.com
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June 2, 2025
The concept of terraforming Mars — transforming the planet's climate to support life as we know it — has long belonged to the realm of science fiction. But a new study argues that it's time to take the idea seriously. "Thirty years ago,...
Merck Life Science Korea launches 2025 startup contest to foster next-generation biotech innovators
Korea Biomedical Review
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June 2, 2025
Merck Life Science Korea has launched its Advance Biotech Grant Program 2025 Korea, aiming to identify and support promising early-stage companies in Korea’s biopharmaceutical and synthetic drug sectors. Now in its third year, the competition...
Using nuclear waste, these scientists have developed a rechargeable battery capable of providing electricity to 3,000 households.
Farmingdale Observer - New York
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June 2, 2025
Japanese researchers have succeeded in designing a rechargeable battery that uses depleted uranium, a by-product of uranium enrichment. If this solution proves viable, it could transform nuclear waste into a valuable source of energy. Uranium is...
Scientists discover mysterious 'ghost lineage' after unearthing 7,100-year-old skeleton in China
GB News
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June 2, 2025
Chinese scientists have discovered a mysterious "ghost lineage" after analysing a 7,100-year-old female skeleton unearthed in southwestern China's Yunnan province. The ancient woman, found at the Xingyi archaeological site, represents a previously...
Scientists explain away Jesus' loaves and fish miracle as natural phenomenon
Irish Star
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June 2, 2025
05:00 ET, 02 Jun 2025 Jesus miracle explained by science The Biblical miracle of Jesus feeding the five thousand with just five loaves and two fishes is well-known, but scientists now believe a natural phenomenon may have been at play. Researchers...
The polar regions hold crucial scientific secrets — and the time to study them is running out
Nature
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Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future Neil Shubin Dutton (2025) On his first fossil-hunting expedition to the Arctic regions of Greenland in 1988, evolutionary biologist and science writer...
Royal Marsden launches AI-powered radiology platform for cancer research
Tech Informed
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June 2, 2025
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new AI-driven radiology research platform, developed in partnership with technology services provider NTT Data. Funded by a three-year grant from the National Institute for Health and Care...
MIT researchers develop breakthrough membrane technology for cleaner, more efficient oil refining
Rubber World
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June 2, 2025
Cambridge, MA – In a major leap toward decarbonizing the petrochemical industry, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), led by Professor Zachary P. Smith, have unveiled a new class of microporous polyimine membranes...
Not just genes: After 17 years of study, scientist discovers just 1 lifestyle change that could easily add 10 healthy years to life
The Times of India
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Image credit: (Sandy Huffaker/for The Washington Post) Seventeen years ago, Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, set out on a personal and scientific mission. At the age of 53, he wasn’t just...