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Letters blast rumored shift to immediate open access for taxpayer-funded studies
Congress is set to approve a major defense bill that would establish two new high-level bodies aimed at preventing foreign governments from unfairly exploiting the U.S.
Researchers from racial and ethnic groups that are under-represented in US geoscience are the least likely to be offered opportunities to speak at the field's biggest meeting.
It's a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time. Scientists have been seriously investigating the subject of human-made climate change since the late 1950s and political leaders have been discussing it for nearly as long. In 1961, Alvin Weinberg, the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, called carbon dioxide one of the "big problems"
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.
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.
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.
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.
Changes to the United States' landmark conservation law make it easier to strip threatened species of the strongest protections.
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.
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.
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.
