Most Americans don’t read the rules that govern the federal grants funding science. Those rules, called the Uniform Guidance, shape how cancer research is funded, graduate students are trained, ...

Nearly every modern medical treatment can be traced to research funded by the National Institutes of Health: from over-the-counter and prescription medications that treat high cholesterol and pain to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Green hadn't planned to start his scientific career by confronting the head of the National Institutes of Health. But his ...

Federally funded science is critical to discovering new treatments for disease. Just ask Melvin Mann, who was a 37-year-old Army major when doctors diagnosed him with an aggressive and deadly blood ...

The impact of scientific research extends far beyond the laboratory. Breakthroughs like insulin and innovations like the internet have transformed our everyday lives. They also influence policymaking ...

Not long ago, I ran into a longtime Fleet Science Center member outside our Giant Dome theater. He had just seen a film about researchers behind the publicly funded James Webb Space Telescope. With ...

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US president Donald J. Trump has proposed massive cuts to federal science programs for fiscal year 2026, which runs from Oct. 1, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2026. The proposal, also referred to as the ...

Earlier this month, Eric Berger of Ars Technica reported that the White Houses’ first budget request of Donald Trump’s second term could be a fiscal reckoning for America’s government scientific ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at the UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, ...

Uncle Sam wants you to solve big scientific and engineering bottlenecks outside the hallowed walls of academia. On 14 May the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a solicitation inviting what ...