First up on the podcast, ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi for the latest science policy news. The two discuss recent grant cancellations by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the likelihood that the agency will spend its budget by the end of its fiscal year on 30 September. Next on the show, crew aboard spacecraft that enter deep space are likely to be exposed to a radiation source we don’t often encounter on Earth’s surface: high-speed protons coming from solar storms or cosmic rays. So to protect astronauts, researchers are using plastics to defend against this dangerous form of radiation. Jordan Houri, lead scientist for space exploration at StemRad, talks about testing the protective capabilities of specially designed vests aboard NASA’s Artemis I mission. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Image credit: ​NASA/Lockheed Martin/DLR/StemRad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A vest for blocking cosmic rays, and updates on NIH funding

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in partnership with Science. Visit our website at www.science.org and search for frontiers of medical research dash genomic medicine. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. We find a way. This is a Science Magazine Podcast for August 13th, 2026. I'm Sarah Crespi. First this week, a roundup of science

policy news with Science Insider editor Jocelyn Kaiser, including new grant cancellations by NIH, and what's next for proposed OMB funding rules. After that, I talk with researcher Jordan Horry about testing a way to protect astronauts from solar storms and deep space radiation.

This week, we're catching up with science policy editor Jocelyn Kaiser. As usual, there is a ton happening with the U.S. science funding agencies under the Trump administration. Jocelyn, you've been following stories for the past month about new grant cancellations out of NIH, the first at Emory and now at Pitt. This is after the courts basically told the NIH it could not cancel grants that had already

A vest for blocking cosmic rays, and updates on NIH funding

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A vest for blocking cosmic rays, and updates on NIH funding

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.