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How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril

Scientists have little information as the US government freezes and cancels their funding.
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  1. Dan Garisto
  2. Jeff Tollefson
  3. Alexandra Witze

A test for lead contamination in water, a project to measure the oldest light in the Universe and a study of heat and drought’s effects on the brain are all on ice after US President Donald Trump’s administration halted research grants to several elite US universities.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01289-4

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