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In a controversial move, NASA has reportedly been instructed to decommission and destroy the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO ...
This Women’s Month, the National Research Foundation (NRF) celebrates scientific excellence, innovation and impact. Across ...
On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would shift power over grantmaking away from career ...
Medical experts were ridiculed (even threatened) for voicing scientific information related to the virus, the best ways to prevent it and treat the infections. Thus, 1.2 million Americans died ...
Both President Trump’s and President Biden’s administrations have emphasized in executive orders and presidential memoranda the need for objective, science-based decision-making. However ...
When scientists discuss making Mars livable, they describe creating conditions many humans have never experienced on Earth: ...
President Donald Trump’s science adviser and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy believes the recent, seismic cuts to federal research funding offer “a moment of ...
Industrial policy is always controversial. There’s always resistance to the idea of governments making direct investments in the economy. Free marketers don’t like government meddling in this way.
The order, issued on Thursday, states that "each agency head shall promptly designate a senior appointee who shall be responsible for creating a process to review new funding opportunity announcements ...
By cutting funding for research and withholding crucial data, the Trump administration is making it harder to know exactly how the planet is changing. In April, the administration pulled nearly $4 ...