Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan: Report

Brain Drain: How Trump’s Second Term Is Reshaping the Future of U.S. Science

As the Trump administration returned to office on January 20, a wave of uncertainty swept through federal institutions and the scientific community. Many researchers, particularly early-career scientists, have since expressed concern that they can no longer rely on the United States to support their work or broader scientific initiatives. According to a recent Nature poll of 1,650 U.S.-based scientists, a sobering trend has emerged: 75% of respo…

Science caught in crossfire of Trump's fight with universities

By Brad Brooks

Cuts to NASA science budget sees bipartisan opposition

The bipartisan chairs of the congressional planetary science caucus have come out against the White House's proposed NASA budget cuts in the first instance of across-the-aisle opposition to the plan.

Trump’s Science Cuts Will Be Felt for Generations

Researcher Laurence Plug sets up a camera and tripod as the aurora borealis shifts and sparkles above the Arctic Circle in Alaska. Plug is part of an ambitious three-year study funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA. (Photo by Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)MARCIA MCNUTT IS ONE OF THE MOST accomplished scientists of her generation—a world-famous geophysicist who has traveled the oceans and mapped their floor, helping t…

Science's value, unlike NASA, cannot be destroyed by politics

It should be every scientist’s greatest fear: that 2025, in the United States, will mirror very closely what happened in Nazi Germany in 1933. In the 1920s and 1930s, physics and mathematics in Germany was second-to-none. Einstein achieved his great successes in Germany, and was lauded as a national hero for his work on relativity, quantum physics, the equivalence of mass and energy, and more. Lise Meitner, the first woman to become full profess…

Leaked documents reveal Trump’s proposal to halve NASA’s science budget

The attack on NASA is particularly focused on research into climate change and continues the trend, under both Republicans and Democrats, of subordinating science to private profit.