America has stood as a world superpower for the past century or so, and much of that power has been derived from the country’s scientific and technological prowess. From medicine to aerospace, some of the greatest thinkers in modern history have called the United States their home and pushed boundaries …
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It’s been almost five years, and I’m still waking up in a body I don’t recognize. I was among the first wave of New Yorkers who contracted Covid-19 in the spring of 2020 — during the early days of lockdowns, before we were even wearing masks — and like the …
Read More »RFK Jr. Is About to Ax Some of the World's Best Scientists at NIH
The National Institutes of Health is in danger of being gutted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services. The NIH is best known for funding a broad spectrum of research science at universities with approximately $40 billion in annual grants. But it also runs its own …
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