The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

The NIH continued reducing grants involving health disparities, race, and ethnicity but made little progress toward other administration priorities in the 2026 fiscal year.

Why a recent call to abolish the NIH is a decoy to accelerate the OSTP-endorsed transfer of federal science funding to corporate interests

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Taxpayers backed a flawed 2020 study pushing single-payer medical insurance.

Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor…

A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

Despite HHS leadership claims, mRNA vaccines are safe, effective, and scalable. More federal investment is needed to improve them to confront disease threats.

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.

With more confirmed measles cases already in 2026 than in the entire of 2025, it seems highly likely that the USA will lose its measles-free status later this year. Tony Kirby reports.

Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. bi...

A planned EO that would have greatly enhanced White House influence over grants at the NIH is “looking dead,” a source said.

Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards.

Unilateral efforts by the administration to politicize funding decisions jeopardize discovery, health, and the economy… and demand a timely, effective response.

The proposal, which would have given President Donald Trump greater influence over health grant decisionmaking, could still advance in a new form.

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

Unilateral efforts by the White House to politicize funding decisions jeopardize discovery, health, and the economy… and demand a timely, effective response.

The turmoil of the past 20 months has inflicted lasting damage on American science and public health. But history and recent events suggest that the attacks will subside.

The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.

The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”

The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

Lawsuit argues that Trump policy of purging politically sensitive terms from research projects violates free speech

Rep. Joyce Beatty asked a federal judge Thursday to clarify that the Kennedy Center cannot be demolished after images surfaced of President Donald Trump reviewing what appeared to be a printout relate...

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research