A House of Representatives spending panel wants to spare the National Science Foundation (NSF) from most of the 11% cut that was proposed by President Donald Trump for its 2018 budget.

The number of researchers who work on basic science questions has dropped precipitously.

NASA sees a slight increase under the proposed budget while funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is cut by 13%.

The agency says it is shifting to a new strategy but not from its goal of helping younger scientists compete for NIH support.

Funding for basic research will not be affected by the dramatic changes planned for the FP9, acording to Carlos Moedas.

MEPs have sung the praises of Horizon 2020 in a debate about its mid-term evaluation, and unanimously called for a bigger budget for its successor programme, Framework 9.

Horizon 2020 would need four times its budget to fund all of the high-quality proposals it receives, the interim evaluation of the programme has found.

NIH plans to set up a separate fund for early- to mid-career investigators.

House spending panel backs agency but offers no promises

The NIH abandons its controversial plan to cap grants to big lab and it creates a new fund for younger scientists.

Dr. Francis Collins, a holdover from the Obama administration, will remain director of the National Institutes of Health, the White House announced.

Analysis backs controversial proposal to cap grant funding for bigger labs

President Donald Trump's administration has brought a long-simmering debate over how the U.S. government supports university research back to a boil.

Horizon 2020 found to be meeting its objectives, but is underfunded

Race-blind reviews very difficult and may not help, researchers say

Republicans take aim at NSF but miss the mark

Agency officials say flexibility and protecting the core were the keys.

The double-digit percentage cuts President Donald Trump is proposing in his fiscal 2018 budget plan for science and technology programs would “devastate America’s science and technology enterprise” and weaken the nation’s economic growth.

Proposed cuts include 11% at the National Science Foundation, 18% at the National Institutes of Health and 30% at the Environmental Protection Agency.

A new report jointly commissioned from the Technopolis Group by the UK’s four national academies reveals exactly where EU funding goes, what kind of activities it supports and what other investment it attracts.