Make science great again

Asteroid Bennu yields a watery pool of history, curtesy of an international team of scientists including the Natural History Museum in London’s Sara Russell.

Also, in a week of tumultuous changes to federal funding and programmes, some voices of US scientists affected and concerned by Executive Orders from the White House.

Betsy Southwood, formerly of the EPA is worried not just about the government employees’ careers, but the environment itself and the whole of environmental science in the US and the world. Chrystal Starbird runs a lab at the University of North Carolina and is worried about the fate of grants aimed at diversifying scientific expertise, but also that some grant schemes are getting erroneously included in the anti-DEI clampdown. And Lawrence Gostin is an eminent health lawyer, proud of the NIH and all it has achieved.

Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alex Mansfield Production Coordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

(Image: OSIRIS-REx Sample Return. Credit: NASA / Handout via Getty Images.)