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Jeffrey Epstein’s tissue samples ignited a furor in the Harvard lab of George Church

Exclusive: Harvard geneticist George Church knew more about Jeffrey Epstein's activities than he has previously said, before ...
Los Angeles Times

Budget cuts to Mars Sample Return mission prompt hundreds of layoffs at JPL

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off hundreds of employees Wednesday in anticipation of massive funding cuts in the federal budget. Despite pleas to NASA and the White House from California ...
Los Angeles Times

Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL’s Mars Sample Return mission

After months of turmoil over the future of a vaunted mission to bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth, NASA has its verdict on Mars Sample Return. The space agency is “committed” to bringing ...
Scientific American

Mars Sample That May Contain Evidence of Life Might Never Come Home

Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.
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Experts push back against cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project

BOULDER, Colorado — The existing NASA-European Space Agency effort to establish a Mars Sample Return program is slated to be discontinued. That's the word according to the Commerce, Justice, Science, ...
Scientific American

What to Know about Project 2025’s Dangers to Science

Project 2025, the sweeping right-wing blueprint for a new kind of U.S. presidency, would sabotage science-based policies that address climate change, the environment, abortion, health care access, ...
SpaceNews

Perseverance continues science mission amid uncertainty about Mars Sample Return

A “selfie” taken by the Perseverance Mars rover as it examines Cheyava Falls, an arrowhead-shaped rock in the center that contains potential biosignatures of past Martian life. Credit: ...