Senator Mitch McConnell has continued to receive his full salary while being absent from the Senate for medical reasons.

The NIH plans to close the door on one of the few pathways available to international students on visas to forge a career in biomedical research in the U.S.

This one is important. It's due on Monday.

Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo.

There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.

The Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. Russell Vought created lawlessness in every part of the Trump administ...

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The federal government is now proposing to fundamentally rewire scientific research review for no good reason.

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

In this Review the authors discuss the reasons behind the limited advance in depression phenotyping and provide strategic points for addressing this gap.

A new proposed rule rewrites the terms of U.S. science

Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s s...

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Jenney Bitner: I'm not a scientist or policy expert. But I know that the drug that kept me alive for my children was built on a foundation of public investment.

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This arrangement—where a small number of dedicated scientist activists fight for the whole of the ecosystem—isn’t sustainable.

When it comes to reliable health information, Americans are more confident in federal health agencies' career scientists than their leaders.

In this Expeditions video, Anna Vignoles, Director of the Leverhulme Trust, dispels the myth of the scholar being an island and shares why we need to recognise research as a collective endeavour

I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

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Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.

"There is no scientific evidence supporting the change in recommendations,” one expert told HuffPost.

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