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Joel Achenbach

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The justification used to kill many an ⁦NIH⁩ grant: it β€œno longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities.” Another must-read by ⁦carolyn johnson⁩ & ⁦Joel Achenbach⁩ washingtonpost.com/science/2025/0…

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Early Trump White House budget plan for NASA cuts science funding in half (as Eric Berger predicted) No $ for Roman telescope. Black Friday for NASA Science. Our story: washingtonpost.com/science/2025/0…

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If Trump budget cuts to NASA Science go through, its R.I.P. for Mars Sample Return, Roman telescope, many other missions, maybe Goddard SFC. washingtonpost.com/science/2025/0…

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As far as science agencies, the National Science Foundation stands out - it exists **to fund research.** DOGE arrived, and it hit reverse on its main mission. Joel Achenbach wapo.st/3GBQ5Pa

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'I don’t know if I’ll find a job in America': Why scientists have made their career in the U.S. are now looking overseas. By Joel Achenbach carolyn johnson Karla Adam and Kate Brady washingtonpost.com/science/2025/0…

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What people often get wrong: In quantum teleportation, it's not matter that's teleported. Instead, quantum information describing matter is teleported. Which raises the deep question: Are you the sum of your information? I think so, but would surely hesitate to find out.

What people often get wrong: In quantum teleportation, it's not matter that's teleported.  Instead, quantum information describing matter is teleported. Which raises the deep question: Are you the sum of your information? I think so, but would surely hesitate to find out.
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In case you needed a smile this Tuesday: 10-month-old baby KJ, who received a bespoke gene-editing therapy after a six month scientific sprint - "graduated" from the hospital today and went HOME! YAY SCIENCE! Here's his story: wapo.st/451ZQjT

In case you needed a smile this Tuesday: 10-month-old baby KJ, who received a bespoke gene-editing therapy after a six month scientific sprint - "graduated" from the hospital today and went HOME!   YAY SCIENCE!   Here's his story: wapo.st/451ZQjT
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See the new Rubin images and videos! I am not scared of all those asteroids. But golly there sure are a lot of them out there...washingtonpost.com/science/intera…

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NEW INTERSTELLAR OBJECT INBOUND #A11pl3Z, 3rd interstellar interloper, just found by NASA ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System) Survey on Jul 1. Already inside Jupiter orbit. Closest to Sun Oct 29. Closest to Earth Oct 30 @ 1.35AU. No impact risk. The SETI Institute

NEW INTERSTELLAR OBJECT INBOUND

#A11pl3Z, 3rd interstellar interloper, just found by NASA ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System) Survey on Jul 1. Already inside Jupiter orbit. Closest to Sun Oct 29. Closest to Earth Oct 30 @ 1.35AU. No impact risk.

<a href="/SETIInstitute/">The SETI Institute</a>
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NEW: Trump admin actions have raised concern that politics is playing too big a role + could block experiments that are safe and potentially lead to new treatments and medicines. ⁦Hannah Natanson⁩ ⁦carolyn johnson⁩ ⁦Joel Achenbach⁩ washingtonpost.com/science/2025/0…

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In '94 I went to "Whitewater," Ozark real estate thing that got the Clintons investigated. Ice storm hit. Took 7.5 hours, past jack-knifed 18-wheelers, to get to Little Rock. Those rural NPR stations kept me sane. washingtonpost.com/archive/lifest…