Presenter asserted NATURE could "dramatically reduce long term hazards," generate less heat for storage, and offer a simpler, cheaper repository approach, though experimental validation is pending under an ARPA-E project.

Presenter claimed that "with just a few systems operating together, NATURE could work through the entire US minor actinide stockpile within 30 years," a specific scale and timeline assertion that the talk did not independently substantiate.

Board of Regents staff summarized the Support Fund's constitutional basis, four allowable program categories and rules that awards must be supplementary (not capital or operating), and gave recent competition figures and application guidance.

American Pete Technology (APT) plans a two-story, roughly 6,000 sq ft Applied Research Center at its Rossburg site to bring inoculation work in-house, expand lab capacity and support product R&D. APT projects initial hiring of about 10 jobs and says county officials have shown strong support.

Apple, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI all have R&D operations in Greater Zurich — a region of just 400,000 people. Here's why the world's leading tech companies keep choosing the same Swiss city to build and scale their AI capabilities.

Seniors and underclassmen in the Hastings High science research program presented computational and lab research — including a game‑theory model for optimizing school bond propositions, a random‑forest drug‑prediction model, a frailty score prognostic study using clinical data, and bioinformatic screens for Alzheimer’s candidates — and the district announced expanded SUNY Albany credit for the three‑year program.

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Committee heard HF 4064, a proposal for a feasibility study to map Minnesota's cell and gene therapy research, workforce and manufacturing capacity; university and Mayo Clinic scientists testified in favor, while members asked for fiscal and equity considerations and IRB/tribal review plans.

Joint Fiscal Office staff told the Ways & Means committee updated federal and state data raise the estimated near‑term revenue loss from fully conforming to HR 1 to roughly $21 million, driven largely by changes to R&D deduction treatment; committee members pressed for options to decouple select provisions and asked for more tax department detail before any vote.

CPAs and business groups told the Ways and Means Committee that HR1's reversal of the TCJA-era section 174 capitalization would restore immediate R&D expensing and reduce cash-flow and borrowing needs for firms that rely on research grants and project-based engineering work.

White House OSTP Director Michael Kratios told the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee that the administration has moved from AI strategy to execution, highlighting a three‑pillar AI Action Plan and the Genesis mission to accelerate scientific R&D using federal datasets and supercomputing.

Speakers said reduced immigration would slow population growth, strain R&D talent pipelines and threaten supplier job multipliers tied to large projects. Panelists called the political campaign against immigrants "ill advised."

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University of Nevada, Reno requested $68.5 million in state bonding authority to build an 84,000-square-foot Life Sciences building that university leaders say is essential to expand teaching and research capacity.