It's no exaggeration to say that federal funding for academic research has been foundational to much of modern life, from the smartphones in our pockets to the medicines in our cabinets. Google, GPS, ...

Packalen is an associate professor of economics at the University of Waterloo. This essay is part of a First Opinion series on the future of the National Institutes of Health and American science.

If you eat strawberries, rice or beef, you can thank a researcher from the University of California, Davis. In partnership with the federal government, UC Davis scientists have made these foods ...

Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon. Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. On paper, little appears to have changed for UMass Chan Medical ...

Ryan Summers receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is affiliated with the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE), NARST, ...

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Thanks to taxpayer funding, scientific research has become utterly and hopelessly politicized. It’s time to pull the plug on ...