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The US biomedical research agency NIH says it is dedicating $190 million over the next six years to researchers conducting gene-editing experiments, such as those with the powerful CRISPR technique.
The Science and Engineering Indicators (SEI) 2018 have just been released by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The SEI are released every two years and provide high-quality quantitative data on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise. These statistics aid in the understanding of the current context of the science and engineering fields and objectively inform the development of future policies.
Science and engineering fields saw a 6 percent decrease in international graduate students from the fall of 2016 to the fall of 2017, and almost all of that decrease was concentrated in two fields: computer science and engineering. This follows steady increases from 2005 to 2015 and comes at a time when demand for tech workers outstrips supply.
The new report 2018 shows that the US leads in S&E as China rapidly advances.
As a culture and a profession, medicine continues to systematically disadvantage women physicians at every stage of their careers.
They’re not hiding behind language - they’re acting in plain sight.
The National Institutes of Health will again fund research that makes viruses more dangerous.
Elizabeth Blackburn cuts short her tenure at Salk amid gender discrimination lawsuits, which have also led Inder Verma to take leave of absence from editor-in-chief of PNAS
But final deal on a 2018 budget could bring substantial spending increases.
Some experts say the US decision to repeal net neutrality rules could open the floodgates to a multi-speed internet in Europe.
Tuition tax out, but orphan drug credit reduced.
Agency will no longer set a 10-year cutoff for eligibility.
Agency analysts are told to avoid these 7 banned words and phrases in budget documents.
The story of the deliberate creation of the modern mass-surveillance state includes elements of Google’s surprising, and largely unknown, origin. It is a somewhat different creation story than the one the public has heard, and explains what Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page set out to build, and why.
The Good Pharma Scorecard finds some big pharmaceutical companies are meeting legal standards for disclosing results—but many studies still go unreported.
Social media gets all the attention for polarization, but TV is doing more than its share.
An report on US threats to academic freedom in science, particularly in the areas of international scholarly exchange and climate science.
Government policies overshadow AI’s biggest gathering.
Technology could be used to wipe out malaria carrying mosquitos or other pests but UN experts say fears over possible military uses and unintended consequences strengthen case for a ban.
