In the atrium of a research building at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing is a wall of patents. Around five metres wide and two storeys high, the wall displays 192 certificates, ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, and its grants create the foundation of basic science knowledge on which major health advances ...

Kylie Walker is the CEO of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) which receives funding from the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. She is the chair of ...

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

Nicola “Nicky” Fox doesn’t actually remember seeing astronaut Neil Armstrong take humanity’s first walk on the surface of the moon. But she knows she was a witness. Her father had taken her from her ...

Dear Majority Leader Thune, Minority Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, and Leader Jeffries, On behalf of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the ...

Academics are alarmed by newly released details that show how exactly the Trump administration plans to cut billions from scientific research. Among other things, the administration’s proposed cuts ...

Mr. Piller is an investigative journalist for Science. This essay is adapted from his upcoming book, “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s.” Jan. 24, 2025 Medical ...

Filomena Nunes receives funding from NSF to conduct physics research, none of which supports DEI initiatives. As soon as President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2025, he signed an executive ...