Max Kozlov

6 days ago | nature.com | Max Kozlov

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to cut off funding for certain projects about climate change, greenhouse gases and fossil fuels. Specifically, the agency is poised to no longer financially support research on why Earth’s climate is changing, on how to enhance climate-change literacy, on assessing climate-change anxiety and more, according to internal NIH documents and e-mails that Nature has obtained. Trump gutted two landmark environmental reports — can researchers save them?

1 week ago | nature.com | Jeff Tollefson |Dan Garisto |Max Kozlov

US President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 calls for unprecedented cuts to scientific agencies that, if enacted, would deal a devastating blow to US science, policy specialists say. The budget document released by the White House on Friday for the upcoming fiscal year, which starts on 1 October, is light on details, but it calls for disproportionately large cuts for federal science funding.

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Max Kozlov

A forthcoming policy from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will target — and at least temporarily stop — funding to laboratories and hospitals outside the United States, threatening thousands of global-health projects and international collaborations on topics such as emerging infectious diseases and cancer. Will US science survive Trump 2.0?The NIH, the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, plans to release the policy in the next week.

2 weeks ago | spektrum.de | Max Kozlov

Hintergrund Lesedauer ca. 9 Minuten DruckenTeilenGesundheitsrisiko: Der Plastikmüll in unsMikroplastik ist fast überall zu finden – auch in unseren Organen. Wie wirken sich die winzigen Partikel auf die Gesundheit aus? Sobald man Lauge in das kleine Glasfläschchen gibt, beginnt sich das Stück menschliche Gehirn darin zu zersetzen.

1 month ago | scientificamerican.com | Max Kozlov |Chris Ryan

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature analysis of the unprecedented cuts. The administration of US President Donald Trump began purging NIH-funded studies on topics that it deems problematic less than 50 days ago, continuously expanding its list to include research on topics ranging from COVID-19 to misinformation.