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The director of President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget announced this week that a major climate research center will be dismantled. The year 2025 will bring a wave of reorganizations and funding cuts, reshaping the ways science is done in the USA. Veteran science journalist Roland Pease tells us whether we’re starting to see the effects. Victoria Gill takes an underground tour of Finland’s new nuclear waste disposal facility. It is the first country in the world to get one, and the UK is interested in learning how to do it. Victoria was also joined by science journalist Caroline Steele to talk about scientific research this week. 40 years ago, Dian Fossey was murdered at her home in Rwanda, where she had spent decades studying mountain gorillas. Jilly Forrester, Professor of Comparative Cognition at the University of Sussex, talks about why data collected from ‘Gorilla Diane in the Mist’ continues to shape science today. To discover more great science content, head to bbc.co.uk, search for BBC Inside Science and follow the links to the Open University. Presenter: Victoria Gill Producers: Claire Salisbury, Kate White and Tim Dodd Editor: Martin Smith Production Coordinator: Jana Bennett Holzworth
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