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Scientists in Kansas, Missouri and other states were poised to start research to cut U.S. reliance on fertilizer imports, keep biofuel farming cost-competitive and tackle a potent greenhouse gas.

For more than 50 years, the Columbia Environmental Research Center has produced research about contaminants and their effects in the water and on land. President Trump's proposed funding cuts to the U.S. Geological Survey would lay off all of its employees.

The Kansas City Fire Department has responded to all kinds of emergencies since 1868, but some firefighters who died doing this dangerous work have been forgotten. Ray Elder is making certain all of them are remembered, and their names added to the Firefighters Fountain and Memorial.

The researchers at Washington University in St. Louis say the device could keep farmers from having to cull their flocks when they detect the contagious virus, which has affected more than 5 million birds in Missouri since 2022.

After 10 months of providing behavioral health support, Maria Loconsolo was ready to commit 20 years at her federal job with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Those plans went out the window last weekend.

The proposed cap on grants is part of a raft of sweeping federal cost-cutting measures put in place by the Trump administration.

The public university has been recognized as a leading research university. The certification makes UMKC more competitive for both students and research funding.

The Soybean Innovation Lab based at the University of Illinois has laid off 30 employees and expects to shut down in the spring if funding isn't restored. Lab leaders at other Land Grant universities say they have avoided layoffs, but that could change.

Universities and hospitals would need to cut their budgets under proposed changes to how medical research grants are funded by the National Institutes of Health. A federal judge on Monday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the cuts in response to a lawsuit joined by 22 states, not including Missouri.

The University of Missouri has been involved in the Soybean Innovation Lab since 2013. Researchers have been trying to help Missouri farmers combat a disease that can decimate soybean crops.

A recently published study shows for the first time that even short periods of severe inactivity allow the buildup of proteins in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

Their research could help explain why the same strain of the plague can reemerge in the same area after years of inactivity and harm the local environment.