Former Los Alamos physicist gets probation for failing to disclose China ties
Turab Lookman had pled guilty to falsely denying contact with Thousand Talents Program
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‘The warning lights are flashing.’ Report finds nations failing to protect biodiversity
Despite glimmers of progress, the world has not achieved decadal targets to protect nature -
Climate change denialist given top role at major U.S. science agency
NOAA hires geographer David Legates, who dismisses climate science -
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Leader of U.S. vaccine push says he‘ll quit if politics trumps science
Moncef Slaoui, scientific head of Operation Warp Speed, discusses challenges and politics of approving a vaccine before the election -
How democracies are now ‘backsliding’ in countries from Russia to the United States
Without strong support for democracy, authoritarian practices are on the rise -
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Here’s how the U.S. could release a COVID-19 vaccine before the election—and why that scares some
Science explains FDA’s emergency use authorization and other ways countries can speed approvals for vaccines to the new coronavirus -
Cannabis research database shows how U.S. funding focuses on harms of the drug
Analysis of 50 funders finds cannabis treatment research is growing slowly -
Will the 2020 census numbers be good enough, and how soon will we know?
Mounting fears of massive undercount spur push for independent oversight, more time -
In reversal, Trump kills huge Alaskan gold mine. Here’s why
Salmon fishing fans, including Trump’s son, opposed project -
NIH imposes ‘outrageous’ conditions on resuming coronavirus grant targeted by Trump
Grantee calls move “cynical,” conditions “impossible” to meet -
New U.S. ethics board rejects most human fetal tissue research proposals
HHS Secretary Azar asked not to fund 13 of 14 applications -
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