Whether space, health, technology or environment, here are the issues in science that the editors of Scientific American are ...

This year, quantum science and computing came up a lot. There have been broad claims that quantum science and engineering ...

The fate of the centers isn't sealed, since Congress ultimately has the power to assign funds. But until a decision is made, ...

Europe must reform the ways in which science is evaluated. To boost innovation, it must improve research culture.

It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists.

As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, ...

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it would result in one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the ...

Leading efforts to translate research into treatments at the NIH had felt, for physician Josh Fessel, like the way he could ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today stands at a crossroads. While the agency continues to receive bipartisan support and steady funding increases, the NIH has long faced structural ...

China’s rise in research output and influence has coincided with the U.S. government’s increased focus on research security ...

This story is part of a Grist package examining how President Trump's first 100 days in office have reshaped climate and environmental policy in the U.S. Across seven decades and a dozen presidencies, ...