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Even with some grants restored, researchers say the deeper damage is harder to undo — and a proposed federal rule could make nonscientific control of science permanent.

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Scientists across multiple disciplines are sounding the alarm after the White House proposed taking greater control over how scientific research gets funded and allowing political appointees to decide ...

The Trump administration has proposed federal funding cuts to a little corner of research called social, behavioral and economic science. Science continues to suffer under the Trump administration.

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