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President Donald Trump speaks during an event with the Artemis II astronauts in the Oval Office of the White House on April 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's science purge harms the nation

Garrett Owen
Senate wing of the United States Capitol building (Getty Images/OGphoto)

Federal science funding at record lows

Chris Impey - The Conversation
The RV Thomas G. Thompson, a research vessel owned and operated by the University of Washington. (Mark Harris for Undark)

Allegations on ill-fated science cruise

Mark Harris - Undark
In this Jan. 24, 2015 photo, snow surrounds buildings used by Chile's scientists on Robert Island, part of the South Shetland Islands archipelago in Antarctica. Temperatures can range from above zero in the South Shetlands and Antarctic Peninsula to the unbearable frozen lands near the South Pole.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) (AP)

#MeToo in Antarctica

Eve Andrews - Grist
A still from NOVA's "Black Hole Apocalypse" (PBS)

NOVA's "Black Hole Apocalypse"

Matthew Rozsa
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Pranav Dixit - Fast Company

Abrahm Lustgarten - ProPublica