Congress’s proposed budgets would preserve more research spending than the president’s. It’s a rare rebuke from Republicans to the White House’s efforts to gut funding for several research support ...

A Senate spending bill would restore funding for dozens of NASA science missions threatened with cancellation in the ...

As a veteran academic researcher, department chairperson and associate dean for research, I have seen this process play out from multiple perspectives – as a grant recipient, grant reviewer and ...

An economist who helped convince the Biden administration to spend more on research bemoans the deep cuts proposed by ...

By emphasizing scientific uncertainty above other values, political appointees can block any regulatory action they want to.

As a high schooler attending Owasso Public Schools, I got the full Oklahoma high school football experience, which led me to ...

Within a few years, I was running a bustling lab with support from both the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the National ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every year since 1991, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration has offered competitive grants to a small number of ...

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 ...

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 ...