Trump's 2026 budget includes the biggest cuts for scientific research in decades. Here's why that's a terrible idea.

Its meddling and arbitrary cuts to staff, programs, and grants are killing an engine of American greatness, insiders say.

Two of America's most senior scientists are enraged at the Trump administration's slashing of research funding for energy, as ...

Making decisions that align long-term goals and short-term rewards is challenging, but it can lead to better choices and ...

In a new communications landscape that feasts on polarization, the science community needs to rethink how it engages society ...

“Much of the new guidance is remarkably UNremarkable,” wrote Gretchen Goldman, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists ...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Opportunities for young scientists are also vanishing. Internships have been canceled, and federal fellowships like the ...

As scientific research opportunities are increasingly at risk, the U.S. is creating refugees of science. Instead of sticking ...

Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.