A year ago, federal support for scientific research appeared to be crumbling. But thanks to Congress and several lawsuits, ...

Bliss, a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, typically gets up at 6 a.m. to make the drive to rural Lake County, where she’s ...

Johns Hopkins scientists and partners across the country are conducting research that could dramatically improve transplants, ...

In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more ...

Twelve-step programs have millions of recovering members worldwide, yet they’re often dismissed by academics. Why?

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely ...

Secretary of War Hegseth announced that his department is "taking a sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program in the federal government—the 8(a) program." (Source: X @SecWar) On January 16, 2026, ...

A major update to how obesity is defined could push U.S. obesity rates to nearly 70%, according to a large new study. The change comes from adding waist and body fat measurements to BMI, capturing ...

Memory chips are in short supply as artificial-intelligence models demand ever larger data centers. Lam Research makes the etchers and other systems that will be needed to boost chip production, so ...

Carrie McDonough receives funding from the U.S. EPA. She previously led the Pittsburgh chapter of Stand Up for Science and volunteers with Indivisible Pittsburgh, Casa San Jose and Pittsburgh ...

The National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., houses federally funded modeling, data and computing systems that underpin U.S. weather forecasting and infrastructure ...