Black people in the US are subject to double the level of heat stress in cities than whites.

The journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones appears to be a victim of viewpoint discrimination. Academic freedom needs a vigorous defense-and not just at UNC.

The announcement sought to clarify the surprise recommendation that vaccinated people could largely stop wearing masks in most cases.

The University of California system will no longer require SAT and ACT scores for admission after reaching a settlement agreement, a statement from the UC system said.

Provision in Endless Frontier Act would tighten U.S. oversight of foreign sources of funding.

Widely circulating coronavirus variants and persistent hesitancy about vaccines will keep the goal out of reach. The virus is here to stay, but vaccinating the most vulnerable may be enough to restore normalcy.

Senate, House of Representatives panels examine proposals for massive spending hike and new directorate.

Florida is poised to pass a bill allowing students to record classes for personal use -- and to complain about professors who violate students' free expression.

White House requests big funding increases for research agencies.

As the National Institutes of Health begins implementing Trump-era guidelines, researchers voice concerns over transparency and racial profiling.

Rejection of mainstream science and medicine has become a key feature of the political right in the U.S. and increasingly around the world

The Baltimore plant that recently had to scrap up to 15 million ruined doses had flouted rules and downplayed errors, according to internal audits, ex-employees and clients. Other doses had to be scrapped last year.

President and lawmakers push proposals to add technology directorate and boost budget.

President's infrastructure plan would boost spending at several federal research agencies.

We asked doctors, scientists, public health experts and health advocates to take a look back - what would they redo, if they could?

The intervention was the earliest action yet known in an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that concealed how many nursing home residents died in the pandemic.

The National Institutes of Health will fund researchers to track people's recovery, and will host a biospecimen bank.

Without more people of color pursuing doctoral degrees, the talent pool will stay predominantly white.

The wintry weather that has battered the southern US and parts of Europe could be a counterintuitive effect of the climate crisis.

Lengthy battle over regulators' use of confidential data ends in Montana courtroom.

Today, the Biden Administration releases a presidential memo on scientific integrity and evidence-based policymaking, setting the stage for the administration's efforts to build back from the Trump administration's unprecedented assault on science and strengthen protections for science and scientists across the government.

The voice of environmental justice, once lonely in the wilderness of systemic racism, is now helping shape President Biden's cabinet with nominees pledging to restore environmental and public health protections dismantled by the previous administration.

Despite a long list of supremely qualified people who could inspire a whole new generation of scientists, the glass ceiling in American science remains intact.

Scientists praise US president's pick of Alondra Nelson, a specialist in bioethics and social inequality.

Nature's guide tracks the US president's appointees who matter most to science.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. will bring with him the largest team of climate change experts ever assembled in the White House, and action on global warming is expected quickly.

Under Biden, genome-sequencing pioneer Eric Lander may become the most powerful scientist in US history. But he comes with some baggage.

Researchers found that the variant originated in California and showed up in more than half of samples tested last week by researchers in Los Angeles.