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.

Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...

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

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

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

Somehow, after more than 70 years, she recalls his name. Horst, yes, that's it. Horst Strasser. He was 17, and she was 15 or so. They had become good friends under the worst of circumstances. For whe…

Join us Friday, May 29 to learn about the cutting-edge research in happening in the HCIL! In this full-day event (held in the Iribe building on UMD’s campus and on Zoom), we’ll hear from faculty and s...

The economic and political problems of “cost disease” in education have created a powerful incentive for the adoption of AI.

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.

Human-computer interaction (HCI) and natural language processing (NLP) research increasingly explore large language model (LLM) support for online content moderation tasks. This study conducts a value...

Following the release of the President's Budget Request (PBR) on April 3rd, NSF quickly and quietly took steps to begin to dismantle the SBE Directorate. The Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) wants to hear about how the SBE Directorate at NSF has supported your research and career. Your stories help FABBS communicate to policymakers and the public what’s at stake when the federal government fails to fund critical sciences. We may follow up for clarification, but we will not share your name or institution publicly without your permission.