T HE YEARS since the second world war have been good to American science. The country’s researchers sent man to the moon, ...

Forty percent of the U.S. science Nobel Prizes were won by immigrants. Omar Yaghi, a 2025 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry, ...

Researchers working on climate change, diversity, transgender health and international aid have turned to lawsuits, private ...

White House planned shift of research funding from universities to industry risks creating a drought in basic research, ...

It is through patient, painstaking work, driven by curiosity and pursued through personal dedication and sacrifice, that ...

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) wields a $47.5 billion budget. More than 80% of its funds go out the door as grants to answer pressing biomedical questions. Over the decades, those grants have ...

Advocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over research grants would “upend” U.S. science ...

The Trump administration has a contentious relationship with America’s scientists, strong-arming universities and appointing vaccine skeptics to senior roles. A recently released White House report ...

Brittney Allyn, a researcher at University of Pennsylvania's Weissman Labs, received a two-year grant to continue her work on mRNA therapies for celiac disease. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa.

The National Science Foundation announced a dozen new science funding opportunities for foundational research totaling $1.5 billion. The new notice of funding opportunities (NOFOs) issued Monday ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation today released 12 new notices of funding opportunity (NOFOs) providing over $1.5 billion for foundational research, including basic and use-inspired inquiry across ...