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The National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health doled out about as much total grant funding in the recently ended fiscal year as they did the year before, despite the Trump administration's "unprecedented" earlier slowdown of federal science funding, Science reported Wednesday. According to the journal'sanalysis, "NSF committed approximately $8.17 billion to grants, fellowships, and other funding mechanisms in the 2025 fiscal year"-which ended Sept. 30-"about the same as in 2024." It found that NIH spending also remained level.

When she succeeded Anthony Fauci as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Jeanne Marrazzo felt that she'd landed "probably the most important infectious-disease job in the world," she told me. After decades of working in academia, she now had the power to influence, nationwide, the science she knew best-overseeing 4,500 employees at a $6.5 billion institute, the second largest by budget at the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest public funder of biomedical research.

NIH is proud to lead this effort to advance vaccine safety and support innovation that protects children without compromise. By reinstating this Task Force, we are reaffirming our commitment to rigorous science, continuous improvement, and the trust of American families.

Dissent is the very essence of science... I’ll foster a culture where NIH leadership will actively encourage different perspectives and create an environment where scientists... can express disagreement, respectfully.

In our study, we found that hundreds of serum and urine metabolites were correlated with percentage energy from ultraprocessed food intake.

"You go into science because you want to make a difference, and when you get a grant, it means you can do something to try to help people."

The sacrifice to research is immense, says Gigi Kwik Gronvall, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, emphasizing the critical impact of halting these studies.

Hall claims that aides for Kennedy blocked him from being directly interviewed by New York Times reporters about the study; he was only allowed to provide written responses.

"Right off the bat, they were just enamored with the ladies in the group," says Rana Smith, highlighting the new social dynamics at Chimp Haven for Al and Kamaka.