By Heidi Harley

science / science - 4 days ago

US science in chaos

The United States is the world’s science superpower. But right now, much of its research community is in a state of confusion.In the past few weeks, the Trump administration has issued a huge number of orders – amongst them, large funding cuts for scientific institutions. We unpick what the implicat...

science / science - 4 days ago

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #11 2025

Open access notables Would Adding the Anthropocene to the Geologic Time Scale Matter?, McCarthy et al.,& AGU Advances: The extraordinary fossil fuel-driven outburst of consumption and production since the mid-twentieth century has fundamentally altered the way the Earth System works. Although human...