Academic science is fertilizer of the economy. It creates soil where innovation thrive. Some who don’t know about how things ...

Within a few years, I was running a bustling lab with support from both the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the National ...

This is a rather cheeky point being made by Matt Ridley, that government funding of science and research doesn't in fact find very much. And given that it doesn't in fact find very much it also ...

Opinion: Unless Congress intervenes and adequately funds science and technology, we are risking strategic failure, argues ...

Meaningful science education is crucial for improving all of our lives, from the lives of children and youth to future and current teachers.

A Senate spending bill would restore funding for dozens of NASA science missions threatened with cancellation in the ...

Biomedical science in the United States is at a crossroads. For 75 years, the federal government has partnered with academic institutions, fueling discoveries that have transformed medicine and ...

Funding of science by the NIH is not exempt and has been shown to reflect bias by gender, age, and even race. A recent paper looked at funding and publication, a measure of productivity. Funding. The ...

While government science funding in the U.S. is stagnant, America’s main scientific rivals are rising fast. Federal R&D funding as a percentage of GDP has dropped from 1.2% in 1987 to 1% in 2010 ...

Every year since 1991, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration has offered competitive grants to a small number of ...

Science policy is an area of public policy which is concerned with the policies that affect the conduct of the science and research enterprise, including the funding of science, often in pursuance ...

To get funding today, scientists must show that their research will advance the goals of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). These terms connote lofty goals, but a close look at what is ...