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‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives

  • Written by Carrie McDonough, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
imageU.S. researchers are seeking the light at the end of a rough year for science.Westend61/Getty Images

From beginning to end, 2025 was a year of devastation for scientists in the United States.

January saw the abrupt suspension of key operations across the National Institutes of Health, not only disrupting clinical trials and other in-progress studies...

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