Most lung cancers are tobacco related, with genetic factors influencing smoking behavior identified through genome-wide association studies. However, inherited risk in familial and non-smoking-related...

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.

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.

The federal agency that oversees U.S. fisheries released a list of priorities on Sept. 2, advancing the Trump administration’s promise to deregulate the domestic industry. The list of 34 priorities…

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

Today, researchers filed a class action lawsuit challenging the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) policy of blocking grants in order to censor views it disagrees with, on everything from DEI to ge...

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Active-layer thickness increased at 55% and 38% of Arctic and Antarctic sites, and >90% in European, Asian, and South American mountains, driven by increasing thawing degree-days and rainfall, acco...

Election Day is three months away, and more than 1 million Texas voters are listed as suspended. Here's what that means.

Critics include Senator Chris van Hollen, ex-aide to Obama Tommy Vietor and ex-Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger

If the federal government fails to extend federal subsidies that offset healthcare premiums, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, as governor, would create a state tax credit to help with those skyrocketing costs. Most Republican U.S. senators late last year blocked a Democratic bill to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially driving up healthcare premiums for millions […]

A slate of endorsements in Indiana is the start of a new effort to win down-ballot across the country.

Private blood-plasma collector has been under scrutiny for months after the deaths of two donors

An Update on NIH's Stalled Funding Pipeline, as the Fiscal Year Runs Out

It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.

She challenged the conventional view that a majority of head and neck cancers resulted from cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.

A luxury development planned by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump has spurred anti-corruption protests.

Federal officials charged two virologists they stopped en route from an African disease outbreak with violating import rules. But scientists tell KFF Health News the inactivated samples they carried p...