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This week President Trump\u2019s director of the Office of Management and Budget announced that a major climate research centre would be broken up. 2025 has brought a wave of reorganisations and funding cuts, reshaping the ways science is done in the USA. Veteran science journalist Roland Pease tells us whether we\u2019re starting to see the impacts.<\/p>\n
Victoria Gill gets a subterranean tour of Finland\u2019s new nuclear waste disposal facility. It\u2019s the first country in the world to get one and the UK are interested in learning how they did it. Victoria is also joined by science journalist Caroline Steel to talk about this week in science research.<\/p>\n
And 40 years ago, Dian Fossey was murdered at her home in Rwanda where she had spent decades studying mountain gorillas. Gilly Forrester, Professor of Comparative Cognition at the University of Sussex talks about why the data collected from Dian\u2019s \u2018gorillas in the mist\u2019 continues to shape science today.<\/p>\n
To discover more fascinating science content, head to bbc.co.uk search for BBC Inside Science and follow the links to The Open University.<\/p>\n
Presenter: Victoria Gill
\nProducers: Clare Salisbury, Kate White and Tim Dodd
\nEditor: Martin Smith
\nProduction Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth<\/p>\n