Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House ...

President Donald Trump triggered outrage when he fired what House Science Committee Democratic staff described as the ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...

As the federal administration has moved to slash public funding for research and education at all levels, and as the government now enters into what could be a prolonged shutdown, many researchers are ...

Since 2009, American eighth graders have taken the National Assessment of Educational Progress Science Assessment to measure “their ability to engage in scientific inquiry and to conduct scientific ...

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 ...

The radical dismantling of government-funded basic research will accelerate the deterioration of universities’ beneficent implementation of the scientific method — the greatest accomplishment of ...