Funding for science is more than just the amount of money. To a large extent, the organizations that fund research set the ...

After decades of setting the pace for tech and innovation, the U.S. is at risk of surrendering its lead in the race that will ...

The push to reduce spending on foundational research is shortsighted, Tesla A. Monson and Marianne F. Brasil write.

In our era of intense innovation-based global competition, policymakers increasingly look for demonstrable connections between public investment in research and tangible economic and security benefits ...

Unprecedented cuts have researchers scrambling, but other sources can’t fill the gap.

In recent debates about government funding, certain quirky-sounding research projects — like studying shrimp on treadmills — have grabbed headlines and become easy targets for criticism. Politicians ...

An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration’s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs. By William J.