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Top appropriators in both parties have signaled disagreement with Trump’s proposals for deep cuts and indirect cost caps.
The Trump administration’s efforts to raise scientific standards are justified, but its methods are shortsighted.
Academic science is fertilizer of the economy. It creates soil where innovation thrive. Some who don’t know about how things ...
A Senate spending bill would restore funding for dozens of NASA science missions threatened with cancellation in the ...
Spiders and other arachnids were thought to have originated on land. But a University of Arizona study upends the ...
Meaningful science education is crucial for improving all of our lives, from the lives of children and youth to future and current teachers.
While government science funding in the U.S. is stagnant, America’s main scientific rivals are rising fast. Federal R&D funding as a percentage of GDP has dropped from 1.2% in 1987 to 1% in 2010 ...
A protest at a congressional office building highlighted future research findings that vast cuts to science will erase ...
This is a rather cheeky point being made by Matt Ridley, that government funding of science and research doesn't in fact find very much. And given that it doesn't in fact find very much it also ...
Biomedical science in the United States is at a crossroads. For 75 years, the federal government has partnered with academic institutions, fueling discoveries that have transformed medicine and ...
Funding of science by the NIH is not exempt and has been shown to reflect bias by gender, age, and even race. A recent paper looked at funding and publication, a measure of productivity. Funding. The ...
To get funding today, scientists must show that their research will advance the goals of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). These terms connote lofty goals, but a close look at what is ...