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.

The NIH will convene a workshop this summer to review the ethical policies and procedures surrounding work on monkeys, baboons, and related animals.

Many research advocates worry that the proposal could backfire in the face of political opposition.

Several widely used biology databases supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute are facing unsettling change.

NIH director Francis Collins announced that the 50 NIH-owned animals that remain available for research will be sent to sanctuaries.

Numbers on racial bias in research grants awarded by the NIH show that science has more to learn about inclusiveness.

Michael Lauer, who has been with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute since 2007, will become NIH deputy director for extramural research in a few weeks.