Trump Science Funding Cuts May Hurt Economy, Experts Say
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Trump Science Funding Cuts May Hurt Economy, Experts Say

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s tariffs could drive up prices. His efforts to reduce the federal work force could increase unemployment. But ask economists which of the administration’s policies they are most concerned about and many point to cuts to federal support for scientific research. The…

Gaia to Shut Down After More Than a Decade of Mapping the Milky Way
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Gaia to Shut Down After More Than a Decade of Mapping the Milky Way

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines From ancient star streams to the innards of white dwarfs, the Gaia space telescope has seen it all. On Thursday, mission specialists at the European Space Agency will send Gaia, which is low on fuel, into orbit around the sun, and switch it…

Kennedy Instructs Anti-Vaccine Group to Remove Fake C.D.C. Page
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Kennedy Instructs Anti-Vaccine Group to Remove Fake C.D.C. Page

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, on Saturday instructed leaders of the nonprofit he founded to take down a web page that mimicked the design of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s site but laid out a case that vaccines…

Dementia May Not Always Be the Threat It Is Now. Here’s Why.
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Dementia May Not Always Be the Threat It Is Now. Here’s Why.

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Joan Presky worries about dementia. Her mother lived with Alzheimer’s disease for 14 years, the last seven in a memory-care residence, and her maternal grandfather developed dementia, too. “I’m 100 percent convinced that this is in my future,” said Ms. Presky, 70, a…

Americans Are Unhappier Than Ever. Solo Dining May Be a Sign.
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Americans Are Unhappier Than Ever. Solo Dining May Be a Sign.

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Americans are making too many solo dinner reservations. That was one takeaway from the annual World Happiness Report, which was released on Thursday and showed that the United States had dipped to its lowest slot in the country rankings — 24th — after…

SpaceX Launches NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH Missions
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SpaceX Launches NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH Missions

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Two NASA missions finally launched from the California coast and soared toward the stars late Tuesday night, overcoming a week of delays to get to orbit. Both aim to unravel mysteries about the universe — one by peering far from Earth, the other…

For Patients Needing Transplants, Hope Arrives on Tiny Hooves
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For Patients Needing Transplants, Hope Arrives on Tiny Hooves

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines More than 100,000 Americans are on waiting lists for donor organs, most needing a kidney. Only 25,000 human donor kidneys become available each year. Twelve Americans on the kidney list die every day on average. Scientists first transplanted genetically engineered pig organs into…

Los Angeles Wildfires Leave Residents Worried About Contaminated Soil
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Los Angeles Wildfires Leave Residents Worried About Contaminated Soil

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At a glance, the community garden plot appears bountiful. Its beds, flanked by lavender plants, are lush with parsley, lettuces and kale that are weeks overgrown. But a sign on the gate forbids entry, describing the site as “DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH.” In…

Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency
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Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At the Veterans Affairs hospital in Pittsburgh, researchers spent months preparing for a clinical trial of a new drug to treat advanced cancers of the mouth, throat and voice box. They were ready last month to start enrolling patients — veterans whose cancer…