The Download: US climate studies are being shut down, and building cities from lava
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MIT Technology Review has discovered that the Trump administration has shut down over 100 studies into climate change, terminating National Science Foundation grants for projects already in progress, and cutting off expected funding of tens of millions of dollars.
The longest-serving Trump administration official, Stephen Hahn, is alleged to have deliberately suppressed the results of smallpox experiments.
A technological revolution in studying ancient DNA is enabling detailed maps of Neanderthals, Vikings and Polynesian navigators to be drawn up, with the total number of ancient humans studied at over 10,000 and rising.
A lawsuit alleging that Everything But The House (EBTH), an online auction house, has failed to pay some sellers over $100,000 has been reinstated by a federal judge. The sellers complaint includes details of customer service messages in which EBTH employees make discriminatory comments about the sellers and their furniture.