Agency wants to reassess infrastructure spending

The National Science Foundation has paused a grant scheme that keeps biological collections afloat, and scientists are mad.

Key panel wants to break up Commerce Department and redirect NSF and DOE research

Online pilot program will connect unfunded grant applications with foundations

Decision by US National Science Foundation could hamper research on conservation biology, climate change and invasive species.

Intelligence project aims to reverse-engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans.

The NSF announced its intention to hand out small grants later this year to dozens of institutions to test novel ways of broadening participation in science and engineering.

The NIH will convene a workshop this summer to review the ethical policies and procedures surrounding work on monkeys, baboons, and related animals.

Many research advocates worry that the proposal could backfire in the face of political opposition.

Several widely used biology databases supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute are facing unsettling change.

NIH director Francis Collins announced that the 50 NIH-owned animals that remain available for research will be sent to sanctuaries.

Numbers on racial bias in research grants awarded by the NIH show that science has more to learn about inclusiveness.

Michael Lauer, who has been with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute since 2007, will become NIH deputy director for extramural research in a few weeks.

The NIH Advisory Committee to the Director issued recommendations laying out a blueprint for the Obama Administration's precision medicine initiative, including the framework for building a large-scale, national research cohort of 1 million or more Americans.

Obama issues a new Executive Order directing agencies to use behavioral science.

Long-awaited revision proposed for regulations governing studies of human subjects.

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.