(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Donald Trump will be the nation’s next president, the shocking conclusion to a long and divisive campaign in which science was barely mentioned. Now, many people in the research community are contemplating what a Trump administration will mean for their work — and they don't like the outlook. “Trump will be the first anti-science president we have ever had,” Michael Lubell, director of public affairs for the American Physical Society, told Nature on Wednesday. Funding for researchAlthough Trump has pledged to cut federal spending, he hasn’t offered details on how this will affect funding for scientific research. But Trump has not been a conventional Republican candidate, and he seems unlikely to be a conventional president.

Source: Washington Post November 09, 2016 19:05 UTC