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The 2025 Nobel prizes
This October the Nobel prizes were announced. These awards “confer the greatest benefit to human kind”. I broke down the three science prizes in a bit more detail. Physics Awarded to John Clarke, Michael H. Devoret, and John H. Martinis for their discovery in quantum mechanics that paved the way for cellphones and cameras. Nobels…
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The 2025 IgNobel prizes
The IgNobel prizes were awarded September 19th 2025. These are always fun. What are they? Why you should care? Should you eat teflon? What are the IgNobel prizes? The research that makes people laugh, then think. What did the IgNobel prizes go to this year? Some of the less tech-centric prizes went to studies such…
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US Science News August 2025
First, let’s check in on what is going on with federal grants. There has been a lot of back and forth. Mainly, the projections I discussed in last month’s update are now in place. Namely, an executive order has been implemented which requires all federal grants to be reviewed by a political appointee. This appointee…
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US Science News July 2025
It’s time to check in on what’s been happening with science funding over the past month. Is the pendulum is starting to slowly swing back? https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-will-reinstate-900-grants-response-court-order Last few days https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02221-6 https://www.science.org/content/article/congressional-spending-panels-continue-push-back-against-proposed-trump-research-cuts We await the house’s vote to see how this develops 7/16/25 NIH wants to fade out animal models Animal models are definitely tech. Last…
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US science updates – May 2025
This is text from a previous episode of the Daily Tech News Show detailing monthly changes affecting federal funding for science in the United States for May 2025. Monthly update – US Science You may be asking yourself: DTNS is a tech show, why do I come on every month and talk about federal science…
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US science updates April 2025
This is text from a previous episode of the Daily Tech News Show detailing monthly changes affecting federal funding for science in the United States for April 10th 2025. Main source: https://www.science.org/content/article/science-trump-latest-news Picking up from last month’s update which went up to March 6th. Here we go! These panels provide expert advice from scientists on…
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Dire woof!
As covered on the Daily Tech News Show on April 9th 2025. For a more detailed conversation, listen here: First source: https://time.com/7274542/colossal-dire-wolf/ These days it’s like Colossal knows I’m about to go on DTNS and makes up a story just for me to debunk! On March 7th, Colossal Biosciences spread the word of their latest…
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Mammoth mice? Think again.
This post originates from a segment on The Daily Tech News Show for March 6th 2025, find the show here: https://dailytechnewsshow.com Colossal is a company founded in 2021 that has a goal to de-extinct the mammoth. Which it hasn’t done yet, but it has made a very small start. Dr. Niki explains. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00684-1 The preprint…
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Science federal funding updates – March 2025
This is text from a previous episode of the Daily Tech News Show detailing monthly changes affecting federal funding for science in the United States for March 2025. Monthly update – US Science There is SO MUCH going on, it is hard to cover everything in a briefing. A good source is Science’s “Trump Tracker”on…
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