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Jenna Ahart is a science journalist specializing in the physical sciences. A protest at a congressional office building highlighted future research findings that vast cuts to science will erase ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us). Scientific ...

A protest at a congressional office building highlighted future research findings that vast cuts to science will erase ...