America’s lucrative, long-running investment in basic science and research is under threat, and the consequences could be far ...

Part of candidate Barack Obama's message of hope was he would unlock the power of science to cure disease, generate clean energy, create new jobs and otherwise put the country on an upward path. In ...

The Trump administration's proposal to cut National Institutes of Health (NIH) indirect funds has been widely attacked, with heated claims it will annihilate biomedical scientific research in the ...

It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists.

Scientists have warned that the Trump administration’s funding cuts threaten a broad range of research. Now, a new analysis finds that the president’s budget request would cut federal funding for ...

Congress is now tasked with finalizing the budget ahead of the new fiscal year, which begins October 1. In July, the Senate rejected the White House’s proposed cuts and instead advanced a modest ...

Certainly no one is happy that the U.S. economy is in such dire straits that policymakers are talking about a stimulus plan that could cost more than $500 billion. But an unintended benefit for Barack ...

As the federal administration has moved to slash public funding for research and education at all levels, and as the government now enters into what could be a prolonged shutdown, many researchers are ...

At UMass Chan Medical School, gene therapy researchers Terence R. Flotte and Robert H. Brown are trying to figure out how to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the fatal neurodegenerative condition ...

A collage with photos of Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi in front of the Nobel prize medal. The Nobel prize in chemistry went to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi for ...

If you eat strawberries, rice or beef, you can thank a researcher from the University of California, Davis. In partnership with the federal government, UC Davis scientists have made these foods ...

SOCORRO, NM - 1999: These 27 moveable antennas, known as the Very Large Array, take in radio signals, some extremely faint, from throughout the cosmos, 1999 near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is a ...