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Researchers analyzing 17 Tyrannosaurus leg bones find the giant predator reached its roughly 8-ton maximum at about age 40, about 15 years later than previously estimated, with polarized light revealing new growth marks and showing growth was variable year to year.
The U.S. Senate approved a bill boosting funding for federal science agencies, surpassing White House requests by preserving a large NSF allocation of $8.75 billion to back about 10,000 new awards and more than 250,000 scientists and teachers. NASA funding is largely kept with a modest reduction from the White House plan (about $24.44 billion total), and astrophysics gets $1.6 billion, including $300 million to finish a dark-energy telescope and $500 million for the Dragonfly mission to Titan. The bill was framed as bipartisan support for science, though critics question NSF oversight and the public return on such spending.