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Experts decried potential rescissions of funding for science agencies as well as cuts to government researchers and grants.
There’s a lesson for scientists in the success of the school-choice movement.
The number of basic science papers published by NIH grant recipients has been falling since 2013, when the agency’s budget ...
A Senate spending bill would restore funding for dozens of NASA science missions threatened with cancellation in the ...
This is a rather cheeky point being made by Matt Ridley, that government funding of science and research doesn't in fact find very much. And given that it doesn't in fact find very much it also ...
Biomedical science in the United States is at a crossroads. For 75 years, the federal government has partnered with academic institutions, fueling discoveries that have transformed medicine and ...
While government science funding in the U.S. is stagnant, America’s main scientific rivals are rising fast. Federal R&D funding as a percentage of GDP has dropped from 1.2% in 1987 to 1% in 2010 ...
Funding of science by the NIH is not exempt and has been shown to reflect bias by gender, age, and even race. A recent paper looked at funding and publication, a measure of productivity. Funding. The ...
Every year since 1991, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration has offered competitive grants to a small number of ...
Science. Federal Science Funding Won't Accomplish Anything the Private Sector Can't Do Better A bipartisan bill aimed to help the U.S. “compete” with China would only slow down scientific ...
To get funding today, scientists must show that their research will advance the goals of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). These terms connote lofty goals, but a close look at what is ...
Representing its eighth funding round since launching in 2004, the oversubscribed fund had originally targeted a $600m close.