NIH budget cuts are threatening key medical research programs, shrinking training grants, and leaving young researchers ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

For decades, international researchers have received a small slice of the National Institutes of Health budget. In 2024, out ...

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.

But now, support for vital basic early-stage research is falling sharply. Recent, large, and sudden cuts seriously endanger American scientific preeminence and thus America's prosperity, social ...

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.

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.