Agency would receive large raise for 2 years in a row after more than a decade of flat budgets

Given the awkwardness of tracking postdocs’ long and irregular work hours and the risk of unpredictable overtime costs, many universities are likely to opt for hiking postdoc salaries to the threshold.

Maria Zuber helped craft campaign to rebut attacks on NSF’s grantsmaking process

Labour law will change how many postdocs — long a troubled segment of the US research hierarchy — are paid.

Academic and entrepreneurial communities battle over bills to boost the research set-aside for SBIR

Why We Support New Federal Overtime Rules.

Half a billion dollars are being pledged to study the microbes in humans, crops, soils, oceans, and more.

Plan spells out six proposed “research frontiers” and three “process” changes

The new David Rumsey Map Center, which opened last week at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, showcases what was once one of the world’s great private map collections—more than 150,000 maps, globes, and cartographic artifacts.

Vice President Joe Biden has met with thousands of stakeholders across all sectors, seeking suggestions for how to remove the barriers that are currently blocking progress in science, research, and development.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has found a potentially powerful tool to help it tamp down the workload created by some 48,000 grant proposals annually: It can simply eliminate deadlines.

Agency wants to reassess infrastructure spending

The National Science Foundation has paused a grant scheme that keeps biological collections afloat, and scientists are mad.

Key panel wants to break up Commerce Department and redirect NSF and DOE research

Online pilot program will connect unfunded grant applications with foundations

Decision by US National Science Foundation could hamper research on conservation biology, climate change and invasive species.

Intelligence project aims to reverse-engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans.

The NSF announced its intention to hand out small grants later this year to dozens of institutions to test novel ways of broadening participation in science and engineering.