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The White House is downplaying major citation errors in a sweeping report on chronic disease in children released by the Make America Healthy Again Commission. scim.ag/4jB4fOr

Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

The U.S. government has canceled a proposed $900 million project to study in unprecedented detail the afterglow of the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background radiation. scim.ag/4lnmvfX

Understanding the origins of these mysterious seeps, sometimes called “fairy circles,” could help prospectors extract natural hydrogen fuel. scim.ag/4lrgleG

Over 8 years, sharks attacked 30 people around Reunion, killing 11, accounting for an extraordinary 18.5% of known global shark fatalities over that period -- and spurring an urgent research effort. | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

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“The new law will negatively affect further international collaborations of Russian chemists and other scientists, as many of them will prefer not to participate in such projects,” says one chemist science.org/content/articl…

NASA and India’s $1.5 billion NISAR mission promises global time lapses of the planet’s ever-changing land and ice. scim.ag/44oC3dl

Exclusive: NIH suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

A key Senate spending committee has joined its House counterpart in rejecting deep cuts that President Donald Trump’s administration proposed for research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the 2026 fiscal year that begins on 1 October science.org/content/articl…

On 1 July, astronomers discovered 3I/ATLAS, just the third interstellar object seen passing through our Solar System. Telescopes around the world are scrambling to observe the object, including @ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, which recently obtained this 13-minute time…

In 2000, China-based scholars produced just 671 AI papers, but in 2024 their 23,695 AI-related publications topped the combined output of the United States (6378), the United Kingdom (2747), and the European Union (10,055). science.org/content/articl…

A new study shows children and infants in the United States are worse off than children in other high-income countries across a variety of indicators. scim.ag/46rGiGb

Half of patients admitted to the intensive care unit who had a genetic condition underlying their symptoms didn’t know about it, a new study reveals. Researchers also found Black patients were far less likely than white patients to receive these personalized diagnoses before or…

A hybrid moa created through genetic engineering would not be “a taonga [treasured] species, and it does not revive ancestral relationships with the moa just because it kind of resembles one,” notes one observer. science.org/content/articl…

Congress shows first signs of resisting Trump’s plans to slash science budgets | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

The members of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Exclusive: NIH documents reveal inconsistencies in grant terminations as agency reviews 3200 more | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

A budget-cutting plan by the administration of President Donald Trump would close one of the two Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) interferometers. scim.ag/4jQ7Kkb

In Lesotho and Eswatini, U.S. budget cuts threaten to wipe out years of progress against HIV. #LongReads scim.ag/43xiFsO