"What excites me is that it's very tempting to be very discouraged, and say, ‘Oh, we've got these archaic institutions that are calcified and you could never change them.’ But I think we're in the mid...

A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a $47 million investment over five years, along with additional financial commitments from nearly three dozen universities and private industry...

AAU has submitted comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), urging it to rescind or seriously modify a set of changes the agency has proposed that would affect the entire system for federal grants and other federal financial assistance.

The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Nature - New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’.

Letters from Senate and House of Representatives question purge of the National Science Board

No one will be surprised if we end up with a continuing resolution to push our shutdown deadline out past the midterms, so the real question is what else will they get done this summer?

The move follows an administration push for cuts to the NSF and raises concerns in the scientific community that it could jeopardize a tradition of independent decisions about federal science grants.

Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and AI are a pull for some Republicans.

China reached long expected milestone in 2024

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

STAT interviews with 30 respondents brought the unmistakably human impacts of federal science policy into sharp focus. Here are three of those stories.

AAU thanks Congress for rejecting the massive, administration-proposed cuts to key scientific research agencies, as well as the remaining FY26 spending bills it is likely to consider later this week.

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

Appropriators agree instead to keep this year’s spending nearly level

If you’ve hatched a New Year plan to move abroad, improve your presentations or chase happiness as a 20-something researcher, you’ll find advice aplenty in these books.

We recently spoke with Adam Marblestone and Sam Rodriques, former FAS fellows who developed the idea for FROs and advocated for their use in a 2020 policy memo.

An analysis of international research collaborations reveals the growing dominance of Chinese science.

Scientific research drives national progress and innovation, and must be protected at all costs. Actions from the Trump administration in early 2025 sent shockwaves across academic research. Federal s...

Trump has "shaken the hell" out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

Battles between the Trump administration and academic institutions are putting important biomedical advances in limbo.

Government researchers are heading back to work, but questions about the size of research-budget cuts will extend into next year.

America graduates more Ph.D.s than any other country. They go on to invent things, cure diseases and win Nobel Prizes. But admission slots are disappearing.

Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.

The federal government is more likely to fund curiosity-driven basic research, while industry is more likely to support research that has a clearer eventual payoff.

Even if the cuts were reversed today, former OSTP Director Arati Prabhakar said the Trump administration’s “destruction” will have yearslong impact.

Other recent departures from Trump’s America include expert on antifascism who fled to Spain after receiving death threats

Political directives have undermined agency's independence and record of supporting the best basic research