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Scientific American

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By Eric Niiler Verified, Lee Billings Verified
| Scientific American Verified
2025 was a brutal year of budget cuts and workforce attrition at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the home base for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Experts worry Goddard—and NASA's space science—may never recover After a successful late-August launch , the $4.3-billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is cruising to its final orbit about a million miles from Earth .
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When the pine trees don’t return

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By Eric Niiler Verified
| The Star (Malaysia) Verified
ON a gentle slope on the western side of the Sierra Nevada, where a towering green canopy of ponderosa pines had stood for centuries, wildfires have transformed roughly 700ha into brown, bare shrubland. That forest is gone for good, scientists say.
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Sunday Science: Bigger, Hotter Fires Are Slowly Erasing America’s Great Forests

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By Eric Niiler Verified
| Portside
On a gentle slope on the western side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where a towering green canopy of ponderosa pines had stood for centuries, wildfires have transformed roughly 1,700 acres into brown, bare shrubland. That forest is gone for good, scientists say. Spiky shrubs and poison oak have replaced the majestic trees. All that is left of the pines are burned logs and dead branches.
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