NIH director defends interagency plan as “100% aligned with our public health mission”

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

The Trump administration continues to degrade America’s scientific establishment, causing widespread harm to the country’s broader interests and well-being. Last week, the Association of American Univ...

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Environmental Behavioral Sciences within the Department of Environmental Social Sciences. The scope of t...

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

A recent report, commissioned by the chancellors of Vanderbilt and Washington University, invites further intrusions on scholarly self-governance.

The editorial and the seven opinion articles posted here were scheduled for publication on July 13, 2026, in the journal, Diabetes Care. All articles were provided, in advance of the scheduled publica...

The U.S. is just a few dozen measles cases away from exceeding the number of cases recorded in 2025.

MAHA.

Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions

That requirement: Ohio university students must complete a three-credit hour course in American civic literacy to graduate.

A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.

Although MAHA/MAGA doctors wrapped themselves in the protective cloak of science to stave off criticism, we are under no obligation to treat doctors who spread COVID disinformation and right-wing poli

A $48 billion government monopoly should give way to the market.

Some say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie.

New College of Florida to acquire USF Sarasota-Manatee in deal that leading Democratic lawmaker says ‘reeks of grift’

The Trump administration is continuing its assault on higher education, but in a departure from its earlier high-profile fights with individual institutions like Harvard, it is now rewriting the feder...

A new state law mandates that Texas' core curriculum must be 'foundational.' No one is really saying what that means.

This year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession finds that faculty salaries are still losing ground to inflation and expands data collection on part-time faculty pay.

The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference

Science professors at Stanford criticize the OMB's proposed grant funding changes for advancing a political agenda.

Science professors at Stanford criticize the OMB's proposed grant funding changes for advancing a political agenda.