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The National Science Foundation is in turmoil
US President Donald Trump has proposed to reduce the funding of the National Science Foundation, the country’s primary scientific research organisation, by over 70%. This comes after the White House said that it wants to cut funding for climate, clean energy, woke social, and economic sciences, and programmes in low-priority areas of science.
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It is possible to tune van der Waals bilayers
The DOE, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences provided funds for a research centre which included studies of uno-magnetic materials and theoretical modelling. High-magnetic-field transport and tunnel diode Oscillator measurements were performed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, supported by the National Science Foundation. Subkelvin specific heat capacity measurements were supported by theDOE, Office…
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Powerful computing efforts are launched to boost research
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order on Artificial Intelligence (AI). It instructs the government to establish standards for protecting against the use of artificial intelligence to engineer dangerous biological materials and to create at least three national AI research institutes within 1.5 years. The order also directs the National Science Foundation (NSF)…
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Is China open to a culture of innovation?
A new study has said that a higher proportion of China’s researchers are returning home amid COVID-19. The study stated that returnees who rejected an offer to participate in China’s YTT (Young Technology Transfer) programme were more likely to be the last authors of their own research teams than those who stayed. The study was…