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#scientific-research

The Spanish government has pitched to bring the Thirty Meter Telescope to La Palma, pledging €400 million to support the project as the US halts funding.

"Isambard-AI places Bristol at the centre of the AI revolution, spearheading AI innovation and scientific discovery in important areas such as drug discovery and climate research."

"The NIH policy has been welcomed by open-access (OA) advocates, and reflects a global shift towards making publicly funded research freely available."

The communities of bacteria, archaea, viruses, and fungi in our digestive tracts have a huge impact on our overall health, influencing digestion and nutrient absorption.

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics, hundreds of researchers gathered on Heligoland, the site where Heisenberg developed his groundbreaking theory in 1925.

Writing at Nature, Humberto Basilio examined the study with an eye towards seeing where it fits with the ongoing discussion over taurine's health benefits.

The proposed 2026 budget suggests nearly 40% cuts to the National Institutes of Health and over 50% to the National Science Foundation, deeply affecting US scientific research.

The phenomenon of milky seas, vast glowing patches in the ocean, has captivated sailors for centuries, yet little scientific understanding existed until recently.

Both Einstein and Randall were almost the same age when they developed their theories – 36 and 37, respectively.

Cuts to international aid ordered by Donald Trump have caused many African HIV researchers to fear for the future of long-term research programmes.

The US National Science Foundation has paused its policy that sought to impose a 15% cap on research overhead payments, addressing concerns from universities.

What I felt was energy, a constantly connected, beautiful and fantastic energy. There was no time, place or space, and nothing to see...

In March, some 1,900 members of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published an open letter, declaring: "We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation's scientific enterprise is being decimated."

Fourteen women with fibromyalgia received an experimental therapy involving gut bacteria from healthy women, finding that most experienced symptom improvements in pain, anxiety, and sleep.

Funding for the global Covid vaccine safety project was suddenly cut without warning, without planning, she told the Guardian.

NASA is increasing its citizen scientist recruitment efforts, participating in Citizen Science Month and aiming for one million contributions by the end of April.

There's so many things that have been developed in space that benefit Earth, Bowe said, from pharmaceuticals to, like, research on agriculture.

"Industry was looking for scientific information to make sure their processes were safe," Martin said. "So, led by Diel's lab, we started a series of studies driven by the fact that industry needed these answers."