Foreign universities are attracting American scientists with offers of stable funding and academic freedom amid research cuts ...

How should taxpayer money earmarked for science funding be used? This is a $90-billion-per-year question. The money is entrusted to federal funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation ...

Nations around the world are currently considering a “Pandemic Agreement” that seeks to improve preparation for and response to disease outbreaks, drawing on the lessons of COVID-19. The agreement ...

For years, scientists have insisted that science is not political. This has always been fiction. Yet recently, the politicization of science and scientific research has become increasingly visible.

WASHINGTON - Eager to the turn the page on the Trump years, the Biden White House is launching an effort to unearth past problems with the politicization of science within government and to tighten ...

The Trump administration has promised a “new golden age” of American science and innovation. Instead, we are witnessing a destructive assault on science and medicine by our federal government.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For generations, the U.S. has led the world in scientific discovery because federal research grants are judged primarily by ...

California could create its own multi-billion-dollar science and health research agency under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

More than a year after the Trump administration began making seismic changes to U.S. scientific research, many American ...

For generations, the U.S. has led the world in scientific discovery because federal research grants are judged primarily by scientists, not by politicians. That principle is now in jeopardy. The ...