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Donald Trump displays a signed executive order at an AI summit

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Why Trump's order targeting 'woke' AI may be impossible to follow

President Trump signed an executive order requiring companies with US government contracts to make their AI models "free from ideological bias". That could get messy for Big Tech

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2SWKMCK Artemis I sits at Launch Pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., at sunrise, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, as seen from nearby Canaveral National Seashore. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

Space

Trump's proposed science cuts will have huge consequences

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Health

US stops endorsing covid-19 shots for kids – are other vaccines next?

Analysis

Society

NASA is facing the biggest crisis in its history

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How a study in the Stockholm subway could help prevent violent crime

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How a study in the Stockholm subway could help prevent violent crime

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China's national flags flutter in front of a coal-powered power station in Datong, China's northern Shanxi province on November 3, 2021. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP) (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Why the climate crown is ready for China to take – if it wants to

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Blue Origin/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock (15255350a) Texas, USA: New Shepard-31 Capsule Recovery with the crew : Katy Perry, American Singer, Aisha Bowe, American aerospace engineer, Lauren Sanchez, American presenter and companion of Jeff Bezos, Kerianne Flynn, American Producer, Gayle King, American journalist, and Amanda N. Nguyen (Amanda Nguyen), Activist. Suborbital launch system and landing mission. This suborbital flight, the 31st in the New Shepard program and the 11th crewed, will extend Blue Origin's initiative to democratize access to space, having already carried 52 people beyond the Karman line. USA. Blue Origin All-Women Crew Historic Space Launch, Texas, USA - 14 Apr 2025

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Does science have a future in the US?

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A cyclist unlocks his bike on Silk Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 8th April 2025, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)

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Are ordinary people fighting a losing battle to go green?

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W7E22Y Adolf Hitler at a car show in Berlin, Germany, 1935. Artist: Unknown. Image shot 1935. Exact date unknown.

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New Scientist recommends David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires

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Environment

Trump budget cuts would eliminate much of NOAA’s climate research

Proposed cuts would wipe out NOAA’s Ocean and Atmospheric Research office among a raft of other reductions to one of the main scientific agencies of the US

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Society

US congressional speeches are getting less evidence-based over time

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Health

A political take on cancer provides a tough but much-needed analysis

Culture

Society

What politicians so often get wrong about science

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Technology

DOGE ditching tape storage could put data at risk, say experts

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