The U.S. government spends over $160 billion annually on scientific research. This massive expense is marketed to taxpayers as an investment in groundbreaking research that fuels innovation and ...

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, ...

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.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., houses federally funded modeling, data and computing systems that underpin U.S. weather forecasting and infrastructure ...

Hundreds of people stand outside along the tidal basin in Washington, DC, with many people holding protest signs, including one that says “Fund Don’t Freeze.” Protesters gather on the National Mall in ...

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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 ...

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 ...