An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

Roman's antenna and visor-like sunshade have successfully deployed.

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...

Hi, I’m Kei Koizumi (pronounced like the letter “K”; he/him). I’m new to this UCS blog so let me introduce myself. I’m a social scientist, a science policy practitioner, and a science policy maker. My personal mission has long been to use science policy to provide everyone, in every community, opportunities to participate in and benefit from science and engineering.

Herders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.

An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), led by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, has proposed sweeping rule changes to the federal grantmaking …

Researchers say changes could further burden the understaffed agency

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

How big is NASA's budget right now? What was it like in the past? How does it compare to the rest of government spending? These answers, as well as…

This study evaluates the effect of proposed constellations -- ranging from current deployments to mega-constellations and very bright reflector concepts -- on direct trail losses, diffuse background, ...