A draft bill would preserve NASA’s overall funding but downsize the National Science Foundation’s budget by 20 percent.

Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees NSF. The institutional design that built ...

"The Budget cuts funding for: climate; clean energy; woke social, behavioral and economic sciences; and programs in low ...

Trump’s latest move is a continuation of his actions against the NSF and US science as a whole.

The dismissals from an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation marked the president’s latest assault ...

2025 was a hard year for science. The Trump administration upended federal funding for all kinds of scientific pursuits, slashing budgets across... Science funding was hit in 2025. What does that mean ...

Lasers are everywhere. Whether for barcode scanners, hair removal treatments or fiber-optic internet connections, these beams of light power our everyday lives. Their history dates back to Einstein’s ...

About a year ago, it seemed the sky was falling for American scientific research. The Trump administration last February cut thousands of workers at federal science agencies, squeezed the flow of ...

Some federal contractors are feeling the squeeze after the president slashed support for climate programs and other research efforts. Melinda Holland started last year with high hopes for her business ...

The unsettled and dynamic pause in federal grants ordered recently has a wide swath of consequences. Each consequence deserves attention; we focus here on science funding. Consider the critical ...

At the Department of Agriculture’s research division, everyone knows there’s one word they should never say, according to Ethan Roberts. “The forbidden C-word” — climate. Roberts, union president at ...

The abrupt firing of the board comes at a time of climate crisis and international competition ...