A lawsuit accusing one of the country'€™s most selective universities of discriminating against Asian-Americans is providing a glimpse into how admission officers decide.

Finalists for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Science Advisory Board include researchers who reject mainstream climate science and who have fought against environmental regulations for years.

Already the world's second biggest R&D spender behind the United States, China is steadily narrowing the gap, according to a government report released last week.

The goal, said L. Rafael Reif, the president of M.I.T., is to educate "the bilinguals of the future." Blackstone's Steven A. Schwarzman is contributing $350 million.

This year’s nearly 50-50 split for the Pioneer and EIA awards of NIH shows women did disproportionately well.

Top US universities with low numbers of ethnic minority students are most likely to use questionable practices that overplay diversity.

US agency plans to create a central reporting system and launch training and education campaigns.

Governing board of the evidence-based medicine group may now be dissolved entirely.

For first time in decades, lawmakers finish measure before new fiscal year begins.

Two years after Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced an audacious plan to use their Facebook fortune to try and end disease in their children's lifetime, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has ballooned to 250 people. 

Agency reminds researchers to report foreign ties, keep peer reviews confidential.

In an era of flat budgets for the agency, Jim Bridenstine has started talking about corporate sponsorships for NASA missions.

Alzheimer’s disease will receive 2.3 billion USD, the biggest chunk of change devoted to one of the NIH’s various interests.

Colleagues urge UCI to acknowledge the possibility that its sanctions against Professor Ayala were enacted in haste and to reopen the case and investigate the matter more thoroughly.

A survey suggests U.S. government scientists views are hard to pigeonhole and fall short of documenting widespread unhappiness with the Trump administration.

The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.

The US-based March of Dimes says it revoked awards to 37 researchers as part of a shift in its funding priorities.

Oklahoma meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier is a respected researcher and science policy veteran.

The Department of Interior (DOI) and two agencies under the DOI have carried out policies that block or restrain federal scientists from attending or presenting at scientific conferences.

Under the current slate of legislation, moderate increases would allow agency research dollars to continue their recent growth.

An investigative report uncovers little recognized and unpoliced potential conflicts of interest among those who serve on FDA advisory panels that review drugs. FDA may also have missed or judged insignificant financial ties physicians had before their service on the drug approval advisory panels.

Scott Pruitt, administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, resigned on 5 July amid a series of ethical and spending scandals throughout his 16 months at the agency.

An instructor at the University of Washington set off a major debate there and elsewhere over his recent essay in which he says that the low proportion of women in computer science is at this point largely a result of women's choices and is unlikely to change. University officials immediately disputed his claims.

The Trump Administration appears to be removing references to climate from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s mission statement.

A new wave of scientists and engineers are recognizing the importance of their seat at the policy table.