Senate panel approved a bill that would require U.S. science agencies to make the peer-reviewed research papers they fund freely available to the public.

The US is committed to building a computer some 30x more powerful than today's top machine.

A provision in a new biomedical innovation bill passed last week in the House of Representatives would create a new program to launch prize competitions at the NIH.

Although a person's political views are a strong predictor of their attitudes on climate change and a handful of energy issues, their gender, age, religion, race, or education play a larger role on many other controversial topics.

The US government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications. Scientists would need to reconsider what they can discuss with graduate students from other countries, or when traveling abroad on work trips.

Republicans in the House of Representatives seek to reshape research agenda.

'Premature' rules for preclinical research need more flexibility and greater community involvement, say scientific society leaders.

Harold Varmus, a Nobel Prize winner who has led the National Cancer Institute at the NIH for nearly 5 years, said he will step down from his post effective at the end of this month.

The NCI call it the end of an era. Harold Varmus, director of the US NCI and former director of the NIH, announced on 4 March that he will be stepping down from his post at the end of the month.

NIH's proposal-an "emeritus" award that senior scientists would use to pass their work on to younger colleagues and wind down their labs is being blasted in the blogosphere.

Surveys find broad support for government to spend money on science, but that doesn’t mean the public supports the conclusions that scientists draw.

White House plan would increase research and development funding but faces rough road in Congress.

Plans to double the government's investment in fighting antibiotic resistance by spreading roughly $1.2 billion in funding across several federal agencies.

Billionaire David Rockefeller, along with the foundation of his longtime friend, the late Greek shipping billionaire Stavros Niarchos, have pledged $150 million to expand the university founded by Rockefeller’s grandfather.

Rush Holt, a physicist, educator, and eight-term Democratic member of Congress, has been named the new CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Investment pool, at $250 Million, would be among biggest targeted for student and faculty research

NSF awards $10.8 million in grants to support US government initiative.

Applicants are required to assess seven competing proposals in exchange for having their own application reviewed.

The NIH is to allow researchers to base new grant applications on ideas that have previously been rejected for funding.

The NIH awarded 750 fewer new research grants in 2013 compared with 2012, an 8.3% drop. The 2013 sequestration also hit the US NSF, which awarded 690 fewer grants.

The US Senate confirmed astrophysicist France Córdova to lead the agency, roughly a year after former director Subra Suresh resigned mid-term.

The government may finally be on a path to reopening, but the shutdown’s effects will linger for scientists studying everything from climate change to cancer.