Response to a proposed rule announced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a 24 April 2018 press release.

Images from Landsat satellites and agricultural-survey programme are freely available to scientists - but for how long?

The agency plans to publish a new regulation Tuesday that would restrict the kinds of scientific studies the agency can use when it develops policies.

By limiting how long postdocs can be federally funded and by making it more expensive to keep them designated as trainees, research institutions will have an incentive to employ more permanent staff scientists, providing a much-needed additional career option for young scientist.

US government examines whether criteria for participating in drug studies unnecessarily exclude some people.

"This will NOT happen again," an NIH official promised an alcohol industry lobbyist in an email, referring to a study linking marketing to underage drinking.

A proposed policy would bar the E.P.A. from considering research that doesn't release its raw data for review, blocking some significant work.

Money matters. But for supporters of the 2020 U.S. census, money isn’t everything.

President Donald Trump today signed into law a $1.3 trillion spending package that largely rejects deep cuts to research agencies proposed by the White House and, in many cases, provides substantial increases.

The MIT will work with a private firm to develop technology for producing energy from nuclear fusion within the next 15 years.

Some see National Science Foundation move as latest retreat in US diplomacy under Trump administration – but agency says it will send more science envoys on visits abroad.

More than $100 billion in NIH funding went toward research that contributed, either directly or indirectly, to the the drugs, which were approved between 2010 and 2016.

US president makes last-minute decision to abandon proposal for major cuts to National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s science office.

Funding for the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health would hold steady after Congress agrees to lift spending caps, but details are fuzzy.

Steven Chu, former secretary of energy, professor of physics at Stanford University and Nobel Laureate, has been chosen as the president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Budget cuts and layoffs threaten the nation's health and safety

The US biomedical research agency NIH says it is dedicating $190 million over the next six years to researchers conducting gene-editing experiments, such as those with the powerful CRISPR technique.

The Science and Engineering Indicators (SEI) 2018 have just been released by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The SEI are released every two years and provide high-quality quantitative data on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise. These statistics aid in the understanding of the current context of the science and engineering fields and objectively inform the development of future policies.

Unprecedented level of neglect and disrespect for scientific advisory boards, with significant implications for our health and safety, after one year in the Trump administration.