The White House Budget Wants Moon Photos and Climate Blindness
United States – April 17, 2026 – They want NASA planting flags while they pull the power cord on the science that keeps the public alive and the planet measurable.
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Science: Where facts meet fun and logic leaps into laughter! Blast off into our Science section for a cosmic journey through the lighter side of labs, gadgets, and theories. From quirky quarks to hilarious hypotheses, we explore the universe of scientific silliness. Perfect for brainiacs and curious cats alike who believe every equation should include a giggle variable. Caution: Exposure to our content may cause spontaneous eruptions of amusement!
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The Parents Decide Act, or: Show Your Papers to Use Your Laptop
United States – April 17, 2026 – A kid-safety bill that forces age checks at the operating system could also force adults to show papers just to log in.
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Paper Mills and Publish-or-Perish: Congress Wants Receipts for America’s Research Money
United States – April 16, 2026 – Congress grilled paper mills and the publish-or-perish incentives that can reward fake science, and lawmakers hauled Retraction Watch into the h…
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The FY2027 NASA budget: starve the science, feed the spectacle
United States – April 16, 2026 – The White House wants to slash NASA science nearly in half, then act shocked when discovery dies and contractors cash out.
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A “Clean” Surveillance Extension Is Still a Dirty Deal
United States – April 16, 2026 – Washington is rushing to renew Section 702; I want security, but not a warrantless backdoor into my inbox again.
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NIH Kicks NOFOs to Grants.gov, Bureaucrats Call It Streamlining, and I Smell Smoke and Mirrors
United States – April 16, 2026 – NIH moved NOFOs off the NIH Guide to Grants.gov, and bureaucrats call it streamlining. I call it smoke and mirrors.
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Senators to NIH: Stop Calling It ‘Overhead’ When You Mean Control
United States – April 16, 2026 – Senators are again rejecting a renewed push to cap NIH “indirect costs” at 15%. The fight is framed as budgeting, but the lever is power: who ge…
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The Indirect-Cost War: Courts Blocked the 15% Cap, So Washington Will Try the Side Door
United States – April 15, 2026 – A 15% cap on research “overhead” just lost in court, but the appetite to micromanage science did not.
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Brick Tungsten: NIH Shrinks CRISPR for In-Body Delivery, and the Smoke Clears for Real Science
United States – April 14, 2026 – Brick says NIH shrank CRISPR for in-body delivery with Al3Cas12f in AAV vectors, and the engineered Al3Cas12f RKK variant boosted editing effici…
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NIH Says It Is ‘Simplifying’ Funding. What It Is Really Doing Is Handing Science a Gag Order.
United States – April 14, 2026 – NIH is gutting targeted grant calls and calling it reform. Translation: politics picks winners, and patients pay the tab.
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