Credit: Form Energy | At a facility in California, a scientist tests the performance of Form Energy’s iron-air batteries.

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Across the US, hundreds protest the mass firings at the National Institutes of Health and other federal science agencies ...

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Over the past week, thousands of employees have been fired across multiple US regulatory and science funding agencies. The ...

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