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When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi – the “father of metal-organic frameworks,” or MOFs – along with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson, it celebrated more than the creation of a new class of crystalline materials. It recognized a revolution quietly reshaping how scientists capture, store and…

Just blatantly going after anyone who speaks up.

Jeanne Marrazzo’s complaint reportedly involved the Trump administration’s hostility toward vaccines

Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work.

Donald Trump's assault on science could threaten the United States' position as the world's leading research nation and have knock-on effects worldwide, Nobel Prize officials in Sweden told AFP. Since taking office in January, the US president has cut billions of dollars in funding, attacked universities' academic freedoms and overseen…

The U.S. government is nearing a partial shutdown, with a range of effects on public services and the broader economy

The impact of Robert F Kennedy Jr on US health organisations will affect research funding and access to medicines but may force Australia to step up, say experts

The Trump administration’s cuts to programs supporting people with disabilities are part of a broader assault on DEI.

When you're so fed up you put "BS" in the actual legislation title.

United States President Donald Trump recently claimed that using the common painkiller acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol and by the brand name Tylenol in the US) during pregnancy is fuelling the rise in autism diagnoses. He then went on to suggest pregnant women should “tough it out” rather than use…

The Trump administration is expected to unveil new efforts on Monday examining whether one widely used drug may be linked to autism and whether another could help treat it, according to people familiar with the plans who spoke to The Washington Post on condition of anonymity because the announcement was…