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The Trump administration is tightening its grip on international researchers, and the implications for American science are significant. In just two days last week, a series of policy moves signaled a broader effort to restrict foreign academic talent — raising serious questions about who gets to do science in the United States, and at what cost to innovation.
Shifting from policy to physics, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has upended what we thought we knew about the early universe. Astronomers discovered an ancient galaxy cluster with an unexpectedly dense concentration of dark matter, along with a puzzling link between scattered starlight and that invisible matter — a connection that could fundamentally reshape how we study cosmic history.
And in a story that puts a human face on a very old problem, new satellite data confirm that major cities around the world are sinking. From coastal megacities to inland urban centers, the ground beneath millions of people is literally giving way — a slow-moving crisis that infrastructure planners and climate scientists can no longer afford to treat as a distant concern.
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