The big question facing DoD is what happens if the Traffic Coordination System for Space program is scrapped: is US Space Command left holding the space safety bag in perpetuity?

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

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Healthcare analyst Charles Gaba reports up to 10 million Americans lost coverage under Trump's second term. Medicaid, CHIP, ACA enrollment down.

The US vice-president recently mused with a Christian podcast host on whether the end of the world was nigh.

The aggressive effort comes in the wake of news reports about the military’s diminished stocks of crucial munitions as the U.S. fights Iran.

Under a new partnership, the Defense Department would play a larger role in biodefense and pandemic preparedness. Democrats warned it could allow a Pentagon cash grab.

As Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced public scrutiny from congressional Republicans, the D.O.J. has pursued a quieter and more expansive effort against a wider circle of researchers.

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Future support for technology programs is far from guaranteed, writes Cole Donovan, director of policy and advocacy at the Stand Up for Science Foundation.

They are the first measles-related deaths in the U.S. this year.

NIH's Program Update 3 eliminates Independent Clinical Trial Required K awards — 573 active K23s affected. The clinician-scientist pipeline breaks quietly…

The Trump administration has maintained without evidence for years that providing gender-affirming care for trans youth is harmful to kids.

A grassroots movement by scientists in the US pushing back against threats to academic freedom is setting up a Swiss outpost to take the movement global. 

The Trump administration has done everything in its power to make our air less clean. It has new, stealthier strategies to weaken clean-air standards.

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled that breakthrough.

OMB proposal would upend entire grant-making system – and put vast sums into hands of political appointees