Biden Made a Promise to Scientists. He Can Still Keep It.
Researchers who receive federal help consistently fail to report their results to the public. The government should hold them accountable.
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Researchers who receive federal help consistently fail to report their results to the public. The government should hold them accountable.
As the National Institutes of Health begins implementing Trump-era guidelines, researchers voice concerns over transparency and racial profiling.
Rejection of mainstream science and medicine has become a key feature of the political right in the U.S. and increasingly around the world
The Baltimore plant that recently had to scrap up to 15 million ruined doses had flouted rules and downplayed errors, according to internal audits, ex-employees and clients. Other doses had to be scrapped last year.
President and lawmakers push proposals to add technology directorate and boost budget.
We asked doctors, scientists, public health experts and health advocates to take a look back - what would they redo, if they could?
The intervention was the earliest action yet known in an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that concealed how many nursing home residents died in the pandemic.
Without more people of color pursuing doctoral degrees, the talent pool will stay predominantly white.
Lengthy battle over regulators' use of confidential data ends in Montana courtroom.
Today, the Biden Administration releases a presidential memo on scientific integrity and evidence-based policymaking, setting the stage for the administration's efforts to build back from the Trump administration's unprecedented assault on science and strengthen protections for science and scientists across the government.
The voice of environmental justice, once lonely in the wilderness of systemic racism, is now helping shape President Biden's cabinet with nominees pledging to restore environmental and public health protections dismantled by the previous administration.
Despite a long list of supremely qualified people who could inspire a whole new generation of scientists, the glass ceiling in American science remains intact.
Scientists praise US president's pick of Alondra Nelson, a specialist in bioethics and social inequality.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. will bring with him the largest team of climate change experts ever assembled in the White House, and action on global warming is expected quickly.
Under Biden, genome-sequencing pioneer Eric Lander may become the most powerful scientist in US history. But he comes with some baggage.
He has selected geneticist Eric Lander, who helped map the human genome, to lead the Office of Science and Technology Policy.