Topic: federal budget
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Budget Cuts Threaten Future Drug Development, Study Finds
Proposed federal budget cuts of 40% to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would eliminate research grants historically responsible for nearly half of all new medicines, undermining future drug development. A retrospective analysis found that approximately half of newly approved drugs relied ...
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DHS Plans AI Surveillance Trucks for Homeland Security
The US Department of Homeland Security is deploying autonomous mobile surveillance trucks equipped with AI, cameras, and radar to enhance border monitoring in remote areas beyond fixed installations. These Modular Mobile Surveillance System (M2S2) vehicles use computer vision trained on millions ...
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NASA Science Mission Spared in Budget Cuts, Others Remain at Risk
NASA's OSIRIS-APEX asteroid mission has been reinstated after facing budget cuts, securing its future to study asteroid Apophis during its close Earth flyby in 2029. The mission repurposes the healthy OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to observe Apophis, a sizable near-Earth object that poses no immediate th...
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