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3 weeks ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Alan Burdick |Emily Anthes |Ruru Kuo
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Alan Burdick |Emily Anthes
NowArizona Rep. Juan Ciscomani and other rank-and-file Republicans are facing a tough choice: resist Donald Trump’s efforts to gut Democrats’ climate law or incur the wrath of constituents who could lose billions in investments and thousands of new jobs. CASA GRANDE, Arizona — An Arizona Republican’s …
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Alan Burdick |Emily Anthes |Ruru Kuo
The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here's some of what those taxpayer dollars created. Credit Credit... Science seldom works in straight lines. Sometimes it's "applied" to solve specific problems: Let's put people on the moon; we need a Covid vaccine. Much of the time it's "basic," aimed at understanding, say, cell division or the physics of cloud formation, with the hope that - somehow, someday - the knowledge will prove useful.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Alan Burdick
We explain the administration's cuts to research. Late yesterday, Sethuraman Panchanathan, whom President Trump hired to run the National Science Foundation five years ago, has quit. He didn't say why, but it was clear enough: Last weekend, Trump cut more than 400 active research awards from the N.S.F., and he is pressing Congress to halve the agency's $9 billion budget.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Alan Burdick
In Washington, many protesters declined to share their names publicly, for similar reasons.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Alan Burdick
Shortly before noon on Friday, Dr. Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, stood on the steps below the Lincoln Memorial tuning his acoustic guitar - a "very sweet" Huss & Dalton, he said, with a double-helix of DNA winding down the neck in pearl inlay. The nation's anxious scientists could use a song.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Alan Burdick
10 hours agoDirector of Groundbreaking UFO Doc Says What He Learned Left Him 'Rattled': 'Things Could Get Really Bad, Really Fast'By his own calculation, Dan Farah watched Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial close to "a thousand times" before he turned 15.
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Alan Burdick
Underground fungal networks are "living algorithms" that quietly help regulate Earth's climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient. Underground fungal networks are "living algorithms" that quietly help regulate Earth's climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient. Mycorrhizal fungi are the supply chains of the soil. With filaments thinner than hair, they shuttle vital nutrients to plants and tree roots.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Alan Burdick |Katrina Miller
Technology observers have grown increasingly vocal in recent years about the threat that artificial intelligence poses to the human variety. A.I. models can write and talk like us, draw and paint like us, crush us at chess and Go. They express an unnerving simulacrum of creativity, not least where the truth is concerned. A.I. is coming for science, too, as this week's Nobel Prizes seemed keen to demonstrate.
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May 7, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Alan Burdick
After years underground, periodical cicadas - insects of the genus Magicicada - are emerging by the trillions across more than a dozen states to molt, sing, court and mate. A casual human listener could mistake their collective chorus for the sound of a U.F.O. landing:But to the individual cicada, what's underway is a courtship ritual as intimate and intricate as a tango. The stakes are high; the potential missteps are many.
