Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.

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A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...

Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

After ten years, founding Editor-in-Chief Arfon Smith is handing over to Daniel S. Katz, effective 18 September 2026.

How OMB is using Regulatory Review to Slow NIH Policymaking

As the fiscal year’s end looms Sept. 30, the National Science Foundation has awarded significantly fewer grants than usual, and a judge has ordered an update from the Institute of Education Sciences o...

Track the Trump administration’s federal funding disruptions state by state — what was cut or frozen, who it hurts, and how states are fighting back in court.

Track the Trump administration's federal funding disruptions state by state -- what was cut or frozen, who it hurts, and how states are fighting back in court.

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

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...

An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.

View Projected Impact of the FY2027 Budget Cuts to the NIH and NSF

Pennsylvania’s senators are demanding information about more than 150 health research grants canceled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this summer.

rOpenSci community members are attending the Posit conference.

Twenty Years of Rising Mandates, Flat Appropriations, and Falling Institutional Standing