AIs on their own found ways to exploit regulations and evade current safeguards.

NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication.

Attacks have destroyed or damaged a wide range of academic and commercial research centers.

Agency acknowledges young investigators are losing out as result of multiyear funding policy imposed by White House.

It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say.

Horizon Europe’s push for free inquiry clashes with Egypt’s human rights record, critics say.

Agency’s prestigious training programs among those spared, while other key offices are scrapped.

Large language models could help reduce backlog of study proposals, but critics are wary of entrusting ethics to machines.

Concentrating funding at high-powered universities can maximize output, paper argues, but may sacrifice broader benefits

House panel rejects cuts to agricultural research, and Senators express doubts about cuts to NIH and forest research.

Agency will make researchers outside United States seek grants of their own rather than “subawards” from U.S. scientists.

Geoengineering could be crucial in the fight against climate change. But first scientists need to learn how to talk to the public about it

Agency moves to terminate nearly 1000 awards, including programs involving “DEI”.

Research centers move to reduce salaries and lay off staff.

Sweeping executive order likely to be read broadly, experts predict

Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds

Scientists shocked as “blue-sky” Marsden Fund has half its budget shifted to research focused on helping economy.

A contest with $300,000 in prize money aims to improve molecular assays needed to test aging treatments.

As government spending on Ukraine war surges, other areas suffer

Great Gatsby Curve, which outlines generational wealth, has a corollary in academia, researchers find