The Trump administration upended federal funding for all kinds of scientific pursuits, slashing budgets across agencies like NASA, NIH and NOAA. NPR's Rob Stein and Katia Riddle spoke to scientists ...

From beginning to end, 2025 was a year of devastation for scientists in the United States. January saw the abrupt suspension ...

The US administration is banking on public-private partnerships and an expanded workforce to deliver progress, but critics ...

Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. The policy prevents ...

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 ...

I touched a microscope for the very first time thanks to my teacher lugging them into our classroom at Winter Park High School. Once I saw those delicate onion cells close up, I was hooked on biology.

If you’ve ever been treated for a medical problem, used a cellphone or a computer, or been excited by robots exploring Mars or gene-editing therapy, then your life has been profoundly impacted by ...

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 ...

I’m here because of science, from the antibiotics that stopped my childhood illnesses to the science teachers who set me on my path as a plant biologist. Science has historically been non-partisan, ...

In a rare display of unity, thousands of America’s most accomplished scientists have joined forces to warn Congress that proposed FY26 budget cuts would do lasting damage to the nation’s economy, ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is sounding the alarm over deep cuts to science and education funding, calling them so damaging that if another country were responsible, it would be considered a ...