Science & Research Policy

The National Institutes of Health says its new policy comes after the agency “recently observed instances of Principal Investigators submitting large numbers of applications.”

Congress’s proposed budgets would preserve more research spending than the president’s. It’s a rare rebuke from Republicans to the White House’s efforts to gut funding for several research support agencies.

Without foreign research talent pouring into leading U.S. universities, America will fall further behind in the tech race, says former U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu.

As groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services lose staff and grant funding, the consequences trickle down to colleges and universities.

The National Institutes of Health is upending the panels that make decisions about which grant applications to fund, Nature reported...

House Republicans want to cut the National Science Foundation’s funding by about $2 billion, according to budget documents released Monday...

Some lawmakers and the Trump administration have criticized the government’s long-standing model for reimbursing universities for indirect research costs.

The Senate committee also protected the National Weather Service staff from mass layoffs. But a fight over the FBI has left the bill in limbo.