House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...

Around 30 top staffers have been reshuffled, with some people moving to teams outside their areas of expertise.

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

The accidental discovery of a heat-loving microbe in a Wyoming hot spring became the hidden foundation for modern forensic science and genetic testing.

Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

There is a term for our current political condition, in which our own day-to-day lives are indefensible but there are no obvious means by which we can produce a different outcome in Iran: Moral injury...

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Stand up for Science

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.

Written by: Cole Donovan, Director of Policy and Advocacy and Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...