The Trump EPA is planning a sweeping removal of its scientists as part of a reorganization that will eliminate the agency’s existing science office, according to House Democrats. The agency’s plans, ...

Academics are alarmed by newly released details that show how exactly the Trump administration plans to cut billions from scientific research. Among other things, the administration’s proposed cuts ...

Project 2025, the sweeping right-wing blueprint for a new kind of U.S. presidency, would sabotage science-based policies that address climate change, the environment, abortion, health care access, ...

Tom Williams / Contributor / CQ-Roll Call, Inc. Researchers and the academic community may have reason to be hopeful about the future of federal funding. Early indications from the appropriations ...

The National Science Foundation will “break up” a climate and weather research lab in Colorado, according to White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. The Foundation, an ...

An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration’s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs. By William J.

Helping researchers to avoid the possibility of their work being used in the development of military weapons, and complying with a growing number of laws related to knowledge security, are likely to ...

President Joe Biden was inaugurated in January 2021 amid a devastating pandemic, with over 24 million COVID-19 cases and more than 400,000 deaths in the U.S. recorded at that point. From my ...

As soon as President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2025, he signed an executive order titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing.” This order called for the ...

In a first-ever “State of the Science” address at the end of June, National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt warned that the U.S. was ceding its global scientific leadership to other ...