Science policy fades into background for many who back Republican candidate in US presidential race

New report describes steps to double progress in 5 years

More than $300M in new STEM initiatives were announced at the White House Frontiers Conference.

New rules also loosen restrictions on Cuban-made pharmaceuticals.

U.S. intel agencies are trying to make better use of findings from the country's leading social and behavioral scientists.

A new report from the US Administration focuses on the opportunities, considerations, and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

A poll revealed today that Americans are still majorly divided on the causes and cures of climate change, The New York Times reports.

Thomas Zurbuchen Named Head of NASA Science Mission Directorate

Investigators are now required to disclose all clinical trials, whether successful or not.

NIH wants to expand the sharing of summary data from clinical trials, such as test results being reviewed here at NIH’s clinical center.

Researchers will have to publicly report the results of many more clinical trials under new government rules announced Friday.

The 20-page report has an explicit message: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the position of the president’s science adviser should be retained.

Likelihood of stopgap spending measure grows.

Congress returns in early September from a 7-week summer break with a lengthy list of unfinished business, some of great interest to the U.S. research community—and just a few weeks to tackle it.

Can architecture spur creativity? Universities are investing in big,high-tech buildings in the hope of evoking big, high-tech thinking.

The new director of the federal office that guards against misconduct in U.S.-funded biomedical research is aiming to shake things up—but is also encountering rough waters. Kathryn Partin, who took the helm of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in December 2015, has launched a top-to-bottom review of the office, which has been criticized for moving too slowly and meting out sanctions that lack teeth.

US agencies have adopted stronger policies but have not always followed them.

Ambitious bids in the US to map the brain and cure cancer have not boosted overall research funding.

Thousands of conservation and environmental biologists must now survive two rounds of peer review before getting funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF says that the two-stage review process, which it launched 4 years ago as a pilot project in two divisions within its biology directorate, has resulted in a more manageable workload and fuller consideration of the highest-quality proposals.

Controversial studies of animals containing human stem cells could be funded if they pass agency ethics review

Presidential candidates begin to make clear their stark differences on climate change, energy production and stem-cell research.