Overview

• At a post-award press conference, Clarke called the reductions a "really serious problem" and said they could "paralyze" large parts of U.S. research with recovery taking up to a decade.
• He credited decades of strong university support and equipment for enabling his Nobel-winning quantum work, which he shares with Michel Devoret and John Martinis.
• Reporting describes budget and job cuts enacted across U.S. universities and research institutions in recent months with no sign of a policy reversal.
• Swedish Academy officials Hans Ellegren and Thomas Perlmann warned that continued U.S. retrenchment endangers the country’s scientific lead and could cause lasting global setbacks and talent flight.
• Since January, the National Institutes of Health have canceled about 2,100 research grants worth roughly $9.5 billion and contracts totaling $2.6 billion, disrupting studies on cancer, Alzheimer’s and climate-related health.