London-based global charitable foundation that funds health and science research, including mental health, infectious disease and climate-and-health work.
Wellcome's survey of more than 140,000 adults found that 72% trusted science at least somewhat in 2025, compared with 80% in 2020 and 77% in 2018. Products that sell on 'science says' are now drawing on less public credit than they had before the pandemic.
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STAT's analysis of Wellcome Global Monitor data finds a 24-point religious gap in how Americans rate science's benefits, against 5 points across peer nations. The gap is widening because secular and college-educated Americans have warmed to science fastest.
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UN climate chief Simon Stiell will tell a pre-COP summit in Fiji that heat endangers pregnancy, citing a Wellcome survey of 1,000 midwives and doctors. The survey counts clinicians' impressions, so it can press the issue ahead of COP31 but cannot say how often heat causes harm.
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Sixty-three percent of UK adults report high trust in scientists, but the attitude most closely tied to that trust is whether scientists seem to be on their side, and that perception splits Reform supporters from Greens by 39 points.
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Australia's online watchdog reported that more than 80% of children were still on a restricted platform, and the UK is due to switch on its own under-16 ban in spring 2027 with Wellcome-funded teams following tens of thousands of teenagers.
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A Cambridge mouse study locates the GIP paradox in anatomy: agonists act through the brainstem, antagonists release a hypothalamic brake. Combination design becomes a targeting question.
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