Weekend Beacon 1/26/25
We are barely a week into the second Trump administration and the outrage is spilling forth. It's almost too much to grasp, really. Norm violations...
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Trump’s Plan to Defund the NIH Will Ruin a National Treasure
Trump, Musk, and Vought are purging institutions and cutting off access to educational and research opportunities for anyone who isn’t straight and...
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A Forensics Company Tells Cops It Can Use DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face. Scientists Worry the Tool Will Deepen Racial Bias.
1 Fighting Crime With Science As a teenager, Dr. Susan Walsh loved the TV show “The X-Files.” She was particularly drawn to the character of Dana...
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Forensics Experts Challenged the FBI. So the FBI Tried to Censor Their Conference.
The FBI was not pleased. There were mentions of the agency in documents connected to an upcoming forensics conference that it deemed disparaging. So...
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I'm one of only 26 Black women astrophysicists in America. Acting helped me overcome the stereotypes I felt as a woman of color in STEM.
Aomawa Shields is one of 26 Black women astrophysicists in America. She's long grappled with her two loves, acting and astronomy, spending 11 years...
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Should You Be Religious?
In “Believe,” the Times columnist Ross Douthat argues that science has strengthened, rather than weakened, the case for faith.
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DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica
Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important...
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Trump’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans Discovered
It’s in this country that scientists, funded by or working for the government, came to understand the role of carbon in our atmosphere.
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Five clues that an afterlife really does exist, according to astrophysicist
There are five clues an afterlife really does, in fact, exist, according to a astrophysicist. Astrophysicist and Christian author Dr Hugh Ross, has...
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