It's no exaggeration to say that federal funding for academic research has been foundational to much of modern life, from the smartphones in our pockets to the medicines in our cabinets. Google, GPS, ...

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) future is in limbo as President Trump pushes for more budget cuts and his nominee to ...

Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work. In the 19th century, for example, Charles Darwin made an expensive voyage to the southernmost tip of the Americas, visiting ...

For decades, the federal government supported basic scientific research. The Trump administration is trying to change that.

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. On paper, little appears to have changed for UMass Chan Medical ...

Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon. Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to ...

Senate Appropriations Committee chair Susan Collins speaking to reporters. Congress released reconciled versions of three appropriations bills that will set funding levels for key federal science ...

A collage of images including people in a lab, Chinese currency, and a person wearing full personal protective gear and holding up a test tube. China is accelerating spending in basic research to push ...

Astrovirus is a leading cause of pediatric diarrhea worldwide and is known to target mucus-secreting cells in the intestine, known as goblet cells. Research on this understudied virus done in UC Santa ...

On a typical weekday, David Gruskin, VP&S ’27, can be found working with mouse models in Joseph Gogos Lab at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. But one Thursday in September, Gruskin, a ...

A local cancer research center on the University of Illinois campus has received a prestigious designation that comes with funding and opportunities to expand its impact. The Cancer ...