Governing board of the evidence-based medicine group may now be dissolved entirely.

For first time in decades, lawmakers finish measure before new fiscal year begins.

Two years after Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced an audacious plan to use their Facebook fortune to try and end disease in their children's lifetime, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has ballooned to 250 people. 

Agency reminds researchers to report foreign ties, keep peer reviews confidential.

In an era of flat budgets for the agency, Jim Bridenstine has started talking about corporate sponsorships for NASA missions.

Alzheimer’s disease will receive 2.3 billion USD, the biggest chunk of change devoted to one of the NIH’s various interests.

Colleagues urge UCI to acknowledge the possibility that its sanctions against Professor Ayala were enacted in haste and to reopen the case and investigate the matter more thoroughly.

A survey suggests U.S. government scientists views are hard to pigeonhole and fall short of documenting widespread unhappiness with the Trump administration.

The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.

The US-based March of Dimes says it revoked awards to 37 researchers as part of a shift in its funding priorities.

Oklahoma meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier is a respected researcher and science policy veteran.

The Department of Interior (DOI) and two agencies under the DOI have carried out policies that block or restrain federal scientists from attending or presenting at scientific conferences.

Under the current slate of legislation, moderate increases would allow agency research dollars to continue their recent growth.

An investigative report uncovers little recognized and unpoliced potential conflicts of interest among those who serve on FDA advisory panels that review drugs. FDA may also have missed or judged insignificant financial ties physicians had before their service on the drug approval advisory panels.

Scott Pruitt, administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, resigned on 5 July amid a series of ethical and spending scandals throughout his 16 months at the agency.

An instructor at the University of Washington set off a major debate there and elsewhere over his recent essay in which he says that the low proportion of women in computer science is at this point largely a result of women's choices and is unlikely to change. University officials immediately disputed his claims.

The Trump Administration appears to be removing references to climate from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s mission statement.

A new wave of scientists and engineers are recognizing the importance of their seat at the policy table.

Steven Cowley takes over Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory on 1 July.

Compared to White adults in the United States, Black adults are two-thirds as likely to hold a college degree and Latino adults are only half as likely – with both groups attaining degrees at a lower rate in 2016 than White adults did back in 1990, according to a new report by The Education Trust.

Spending bills would boost construction account without cutting research grants, marking the second year that lawmakers have rejected President Donald Trump’s plans for the agency, which called for deep cuts in 2018 and flat funding in 2019.

The drinking study had raised concerns because NIH officials had solicited funding for the $100 million project from liquor companies, with the money funneled through the private NIH Foundation.

When asked why he changed his mind, Bridenstine told The Washington Post, "I heard a lot of experts, and I read a lot. I came to the conclusion myself that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that we've put a lot of it into the atmosphere, and therefore we have contributed to the global warming that we've seen."

Independent board will review agency decisions to repeal or change climate regulations and rules on the use of non-public data.