The coming year could prove as unpredictable — and consequential — for US science as 2025 was. Although the US Congress sets the budget for science spending, the Trump administration has “aggressively ...

Rachel Beninati, a forensic science examiner, shows how the The NIBIN analyzation system at the Connecticut Forensics Lab works in Meriden, Connecticut on Dec. 29, 2025. (Ayannah Brown/Connecticut ...