The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has paused a policy that threatened to cost universities hundreds of millions of dollars a year in ‘research overhead’ payments. The suspension, announced last ...

After multiple government agencies moved to unilaterally cap indirect research costs—claiming that the current structure allows universities to waste government funds—a coalition of 10 research ...

The newly released National Strategy for Higher Education, Science and Research 2025–2035 presents itself as a “blueprin ...

An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration’s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs. By William J.

In a first-ever “State of the Science” address at the end of June, National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt warned that the U.S. was ceding its global scientific leadership to other ...

The National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., houses federally funded modeling, data and computing systems that underpin U.S. weather forecasting and infrastructure ...