The FDA granted emergency use authorization for a saliva test for the virus that causes Covid-19, which could improve testing capability in the U.S.

Activists praise the actions, but now seek deeper cultural change.

Study would seek to identify effects of bias and how to promote equity.

The US National Science Foundation's new focus on computer science could also put already-under-represented groups at a disadvantage, critics say.

The order to reroute CDC hospitalization figures raised accuracy concerns. But that's just one of the problems with how the country collects health data.

Just weeks after resolving shortages in swabs, researchers are struggling to find the chemicals and plastic pieces they need to carry out coronavirus tests in the lab - leading to long waiting times.

As campuses reopen without adequate testing, universities fault young people for a lack of personal responsibility.

"The idea of losing that leadership at this critical moment for our nation is unthinkable," NIH Director Francis Collins told STAT. 

California scientists have been denied access to detailed data on the pandemic by state and local officials

An email to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was omnious: A senior adviser to a top Health and Human Services Department official accused the CDC of "untermining the president".

Sethuraman Panchanathan has spent his career finding "win-win" situations

The new Department of Homeland Security rule prohibits international students from returning to or remaining in the United States if their colleges adopt an online-only instruction model for the fall.

The world's premier health agency pushed a flawed coronavirus containment strategy - until it disappeared from public view one day before the outbreak was declared a pandemic.

The agency has outlined actions it may take to deal with bullies and harassers, but it still relies on universities to report bad behaviour.

The U.S. has seen more cases in the past week than in any week since the pandemic began.

The research was the target of a conspiracy theory about the origin of the new coronavirus.

European Union officials are racing to agree on who can visit the bloc as of July 1 based on how countries of origin are faring with new coronavirus cases. Americans, so far, are excluded, according to draft lists seen by The New York Times.

Latest action sows anxiety and confusion across the US scientific workforce.

We hoped that Covid-19 would be a seasonal infection. We hoped wrong.

163 years of The Atlantic's writing on race and racism in America.

Operation Warp Speed's chooses largely unproven vaccine technologies for fast-tracking.

With student enrolment projected to fall, some US and UK institutions have halted recruitment.

If President Trump sidelines the World Health Organization, experts foresee incoherence, inefficiency and resurgence of deadly diseases.

Agency would get a huge infusion of cash, and responsibility for maintaining U.S. global leadership in innovation, under bipartisan bills that have just been introduced in both houses of Congress.