The Trump administration is requesting the cancellation of billions of dollars in funds for renewable energy, environmental justice, carbon removal, space science, and climate change education in its FY 2027 budget. The cuts would help fund massive budget increases to Department of War programs, including a 28% increase in discretionary funding, bringing defense funding to $1.5 trillion.
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Drawing together leading experts from across the field, an international collaboration of cosmologists has created a unified approach for measuring the value of the Hubble constant. Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, the milestone could bring us a step closer to understanding why the universe appears to be expanding faster than our standard cosmological model predicts.
Researchers used the world’s brightest X-rays to image intact organs in unprecedented detail and created an open access portal for exploring the intricate images.
