Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

Proposed in late May, the rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over federal grants for research, education and infrastructure.

Ron DeSantis’s Stop Woke Act suffers another legal setback, with the state accused of ‘puppeteering’

The defense tech firm's work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.

We should not be distracted by the bogeyman of social-justice scholarship.

The Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences identifies anthropology as the single most extreme case of scholarly deterioration in the humanities and soc...

Researchers say changes could further burden the understaffed agency

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

Trump wanted campus crackdowns. Colleges couldn't wait to oblige.

The rare move comes a year after the Board of Trustees delayed dozens of votes to confer tenure, sparking outcry from faculty.

Fertility anthropologist Dr. Diane Tober reveals the untold truths of egg donation: risks, compensation disparities, and how to protect donors' health and rights.

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The allegations expose a lack of accountability mechanisms in this state for doctors who use their sperm to artificially inseminate unwitting fertility patients.

Many legislatures have wrapped up their regular sessions. Inside Higher Ed provides a rundown of major legislation that passed in nine of these states.

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

A ban on theses or dissertations about sexual orientation or gender identity has faculty worried about the consequences for graduate students — as well as future attacks on research.

AI may replace narrow technical skills, but the liberal arts equip students with the critical thinking employers increasingly demand.

Tech elites are enriching themselves by plundering STEM institutions—and offering researchers scraps.

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

Dear UCW Members and Supporters, We need to write our representatives and urge them to vote NO on AL HB580 TODAY. HB580 places severe limits on Faculty Senates. It mandates post-tenure review, grant...

Academics have a responsibility to speak up when misrepresented scientific work about race, sex, and gender shapes policy.

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Right now, NSF SBE does not have its own separate line of funding in the FY2027 budget structure. This matters because if SBE is not specifically protected ...

What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion-dollar per year global egg industry, that is the central question Eggonomics seeks to addres...

A German translation of this interview will be published in May 2026 in t

A German translation of this interview will be published in May 2026 in t

“Scientists are often encouraged to avoid politics. But this advice is outdated, if it was ever correct in the first place,” writes Jenna Norton, NIH whistleblower.

Diane M. Tober’s recent book is “one of the most detailed portraits yet of the hidden labor sustaining assisted reproduction,” writes Emily Packard Dawson.