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🚨Ranking Member @RepZoeLofgren sent letters to DOC Secretary Lutnick and DOE Secretary Wright demanding answers to multiple outstanding oversight requests from the Committee.
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Congratulations to North Carolina's own Christina Koch on becoming NASA’s acting deputy chief engineer.
Christina Koch made our state proud as the first woman to journey around the moon. Now, I look forward to working with her as she leads the next chapter of American space travel.
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We need clearer answers about microplastics and our health.
That’s why I formed a Congressional task force, wrote the Plastics Health Research Act, and corralled researchers and industry to support it. Let’s get this done!!
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🚨Ranking Member @RepZoeLofgren sent a letter to EPA Administrator Zeldin demanding that he answer multiple outstanding oversight requests from the Committee.
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”
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Congratulations to @NCSSM graduate @Astro_Christina on your promotion to Acting Deputy Chief Engineer for @NASA! You have already inspired generations of Americans, and I can’t wait to see everything you accomplish in this new role leading NASA’s engineering community.
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💫Happy World Space Week!🌌
As Astronaut Raja Chari said on his visit to Rhode Island, science makes us special.
I’ll keep working with @sciencedems to invest in science and empower the next generations to keep on exploring space.
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It was an honor to join @NCLifeSci to discuss the future of life sciences in the Triangle.
I’m honored to represent so many businesses and organizations that are innovating across the life sciences sector. Investing in biosciences is an investment in North Carolina’s people and our future.
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It was my pleasure to join @DukeU's summit on AI for health innovation!
AI holds potential to greatly improve health outcomes and medical research, but we can only achieve those successes with responsible innovation and regulations to protect our communities.
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The #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2026 recognises discoveries that have enabled chemists to drive chemical reactions that lead to homochirality.
Life’s chemistry is what chemists call homochiral, after the Greek words for “same” and “hand”. Like hands, all amino acids exist as two mirrored variants, but only one of them is found in the proteins in your cells. The other is rarely found in nature.
For a long time, chemists wondered how homochirality can emerge. When they began to experiment with chemical reactions that can form two mirrored molecules, they always obtained equal proportions of both in their test tubes. However, chemists strived to produce only one of these mirror images, because in the development of molecules that will interact with living beings – such as in pharmaceuticals – only one mirror image will have the desired effect.
Thanks to laureates Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai, we now know how homochirality can emerge. Their discoveries have been decisive for chemists who design reactions for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.
Happy World Space Week!🌌
As we celebrate space exploration, we are reminded that all across the world, scientists and engineers are working together to answer some of humanity's biggest questions. Their ingenuity inspires us to pursue the unknown and sparks discovery.
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Congratulations to Francis Halzen on winning the 2026 @NobelPrize in physics for his major contributions to the U.S. National Science Foundation IceCube Neutrino Observatory and its discoveries of elusive neutrino particles that come to Earth from distant places in the universe.
For more than two decades, NSF has invested in the design, construction, and ongoing operations of NSF IceCube, enabling a deeper understanding of astrophysical neutrinos and their origins.
ALT In this artistic rendering, based on a real image of the IceCube Lab at the South Pole, a distant source emits neutrinos that are detected below the ice by IceCube sensors, called DOMs. Credit: IceCube/NSF
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More than a century ago, at Mount Wilson Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains, astronomers made the groundbreaking discovery that a vast universe lies beyond our Milky Way galaxy.
Today, I introduced a resolution to designate October 5th as National Beyond the Milky Way Day, celebrating this landmark discovery and the pioneering work of Carnegie Science astronomers whose research fundamentally transformed our understanding of the universe.
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”I hope this reflects on the really courageous people who joined me in the beginning of this project when no respectable conservative physicists would have joined me, but many talented people did, and that’s why I’m here.”
- Speaking at today's prize announcement, Francis Halzen says the most rewarding part of being awarded the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics is recognising the people who have worked alongside him.
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
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🎉Today NSF announced they will stop their plan to illegally dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). This comes after Democrats rallied against the administration’s expensive scheme to remove monitoring equipment from the ocean floor.
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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AI chatbots are becoming more human-like, and we need to make sure they’re not designed to manipulate kids into staying engaged.
That’s why I introduced the bipartisan “Protecting Kids from Human-Like Chatbots Act” to establish clear guardrails for how AI chatbots interact with children, including banning chatbots from guilt-tripping kids, pretending to be human, or claiming to have feelings or consciousness.
Read more from @POLITCO's Digital Future Daily newsletter at: politico.com/newsletters/dig…
🔍🚨NEW from @nytimes: Agency Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
“It’s a dramatic attack on the science enterprise that has served us very well since World War II." -RM @RepZoeLofgren
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