Researchers at every stage — from graduate students to senior faculty — have been forced to shelve experiments, rework career ...

Biomedical science in the United States is at a crossroads. "Basic research is the pacemaker of technological progress," Bush wrote in the report, which he submitted to President Truman in 1945.

More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.

When I asked John Savage, the retired co-founder of the Department of Computer Science at Brown University, what the ...

Government funding for science is what fuels the U.S. economy, universities and innovation. Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound ...

Funding for physics grants this year has fallen by 85 percent, and funding for materials research grants has dropped by 63 percent. Engineering ↓ 57% 2015-2024 average $221 million In 2025 $94 ...

Bruce J. MacFadden has received funding from the U. S. National Science Foundation. It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal ...

Yet even as science grows more essential, the federal share of basic research funding has been declining for decades — while private-sector investment has steadily increased.

Economists warn research cuts could have dire consequences President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire.

Indirect costs are fat targets for budget slashers, but beware: They make science possible. They don’t pay for the ...

On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives advanced Republican budget legislation that would substantially increase the tax on Yale’s endowment investment income — which could limit students’ ...

In recent years, close to 75 percent of research funding at HMS has come from the federal government, supporting innovation and infrastructure and training the next generation of physician-scientists.