The proposal has the potential to transform the government’s vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit.

Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.

The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

NIH plans to shrink the share of grant applications it will award for the remainder of the fiscal year, in some cases by more than half.

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is leading the letter making the ask of OMB director Russ Vought.

Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

Why destroy the funding that made the United States a leader in technology and invention?

Limits on spending have incapacitated parts of agencies as varied as the National Park Service and the Pentagon.

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Two professors from Rutgers University in New Jersey went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for Big Ten schools. Their effort is gaining steam.