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.

Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.

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

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

New NAS president discusses the future of the beleaguered institution and the precarious state of U.S. science under Trump

Perhaps, but it shouldn’t aim to bypass the public and become corporations by another name

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

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If confirmed by the US Senate, Jim O'Neill would be the first non-scientist or engineer to lead the agency, a big funder of US basic research.

With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”

In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.

“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

President Trump announced today that he is removing the United States from the UNFCCC and IPCC, as well as 64 other entities or U.N. organizations. Statements by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has been proposed as an important contributor to plant genome evolution, with hundreds of candidate genes reported across kingdoms. By reanalyzing published cases with ...