New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas

NASA employees say they've lost vital equipment and staff needed to make sophisticated spacecraft amid the agency's abrupt relocations over the past several months.

UC San Diego's remedial MATH 2 filled both fall 2026 sections with 175 students waitlisted, reigniting the UC test-blind admissions fight. Here's the data.

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The nation’s research universities have traced an indelible path through the American story

Colonial Americans were drinking coffee long before they dumped tea into Boston Harbor or fought a war for independence. The establishments that served it were already brewing revolutionary ideas.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has begun a major downsizing of one of the world’s largest ocean observing networks, announcing plans to remove most of the in-water infrastructure associate...

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death.

As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world

Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...

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

Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

Executive Summary Strategic competition over the world’s next generation of foundational technologies is underway, and U.S. advantages in artificial intelligence (AI), quantum, and biotechnology are i...

Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy

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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified ...

A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

Thirty years later, old-school solar panels are still delivering on their promise.

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Aix-Marseille University is wooing researchers who feel targeted by the Trump administration.

Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.

“This would decimate American leadership in space.”…

Before becoming the filmmaker's confidant and doing PR for all his movies, he worked on classics including 'Ben-Hur,' 'Walking Tall' and 'Taxi Driver.'

Originally posted Oct. 4, 2024 By Cory Golden, RTF staff The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 drafted a plan to overhaul the federal government, “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” i...

Controllers have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million...