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Biden backs science in his 2024 budget plan. But don’t bank on those numbers
The
2024 spending plan
President Joe Biden unveiled today continues his administration’s pattern of asking for large increases at major U.S. research agencies.
But as with all presidential budgets, Biden’s $6.8 trillion request is simply the starting point for negotiations with Congress over everything from taxes to countering China’s growing economic and...
News at a glance: Hubble interlopers, an ocean-drilling gap, and a near-sighted astronomer
ASTRONOMY
Satellite swarms spoil Hubble’s view
Images from the iconic Hubble Space Telescope
are increasingly marred by the tracks of passing satellites in higher orbits
, a threat that could balloon as companies vie to build “megaconstellations” for global internet services. The rocket company SpaceX has launched more...
Suffering in silence: Caring for research animals can take a severe mental toll
Compassion fatigue will strike most who work with lab animals. But addressing it is challenging
Science takes back seat to politics in first House hearing on origin of COVID-19 pandemic
Some scientists and legislators might have hoped this morning’s U.S. congressional hearing on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic would move beyond partisan politics and seriously investigate what has become a
deeply divisive debate
. But members of the House of Representatives’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic mostly hammered home long-standing...