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Research in the US aims to support rollback of methane rules.

Foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested.

Over half of the massive US student-loan debt comes from graduate schools, and it's a sign master's degrees aren't the path to wealth they used to be.

Archivists are the great secret-keepers of history, caught in a negotiation between the past and future. Restrictions and withholding policies serve as their bargaining chip.

A new report analyzing decades of public opinion surveys reveals that the public's trust in scientists has remained stable and high over decades.

Draft update to 2003 policy of the National Institute of Health will require that all grantees make data sets freely available.

A new agency rule would restrict the science that can be used in drafting health regulations by requiring researchers to turn over confidential health data.

Minority-serving colleges and universities are looking on helplessly as vital funding for their science, engineering and math programs are bogged down in the Senate morass.

The U.S. health care system uses commercial algorithms to guide health decisions. Obermeyer et al. find evidence of racial bias in one widely used algorithm, such that Black patients assigned the same level of risk by the algorithm are sicker than White patients (see the Perspective by Benjamin). The authors estimated that this racial bias reduces the number of Black patients identified for extra care by more than half.

President Trump revived the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on Tuesday after nearly two years without it.

Democrats drop some provisions to gain Republican backing and improve chances of final passage of the scientific integrity bill.

Besieged Iranian researchers say that currency collapse, scientific isolation and psychological strain are hindering almost every aspect of their work.

Nearly a week before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publicly backed President Trump over its own scientists, a top NOAA official warned its staff against contradicting the president. This happened hours after Trump asserted, with no evidence, that Alabama "would most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated" by hurricane Dorian, and days before he showed a hurricane map modified with a hand-drawn, half-circle around Alabama.

The Trump administration is limiting scientific input to the 2020 dietary guidelines, raising concerns among nutrition advocates and independent experts about industry influence over healthy eating recommendations for all Americans.

In response to the public health emergency of opioid misuse, the NIH intends to maximize the availability of Publications and the sharing of underlying data for NIH-Supported HEAL research projects.

A growing chorus of researchers wants to study gun violence in the U.S. as a public health issue, similar to the way they have tracked automobile or workplace safety for decades.

The long-standing debate over open access to research results has been marked by a geographic divide - but the divide is starting to blur.

The Government Accountability Office found that the administration "did not consistently ensure" that appointees to E.P.A. advisory boards met federal ethics requirements.

Changes to the United States' landmark conservation law make it easier to strip threatened species of the strongest protections.

A handful of universities are trying to help more black and Hispanic students get into and through graduate school, where they enroll in disproportionately low numbers. This is a problem not only for the students, but for the schools themselves and for employers who need workers with graduate educations.

The Trump administration wants to disband a panel of national security advisors, the latest U.S. crackdown on science.

Politics intruded on science and intelligence. That's why I quit my job as an analyst for the State Department.

Until recently, few universities tried to replicate the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, aiming to increase diversity among future leaders in science, technology, engineering and related fields. But that's changing.

We scientists must stand up for openness and fairness. Discriminating against someone because of their ethnicity, turning down a collaboration or refusing a visa for a conference on the grounds of nationality, or simply making someone feel unwelcome because they are an immigrant - these are all morally objectionable and practically counterproductive. Such behaviour must cease.

A new study of millions of patents granted between 1926 and 2017 supports the value of spending tax dollars on basic research.

A Chinese scientist’s startup fled the U.S. after a federal investigation that included a failed sting, airport stops and an unfounded child-porn search.

At the University of North Carolina, specialized counselors serve the school's biomedical Ph.D. students.

Researchers describe how a government crackdown on foreign influence is affecting them following a statement of support from their university.

After near-death experience, top scientists seek a long-term home in the U.S. government.