For all of the political chaos that American science endured in 2025, aspects of this country’s research enterprise made it ...

The Trump administration upended federal funding for all kinds of scientific pursuits, slashing budgets across agencies like NASA, NIH and NOAA. NPR's Rob Stein and Katia Riddle spoke to scientists ...

U.S.-based researchers detail how their work has been disrupted by funding cuts and policy changes ushered by the second ...

The US administration is banking on public-private partnerships and an expanded workforce to deliver progress, but critics ...

Trump administration officials say changes to federal agencies engaged in science were made in the interests of better science that benefits more Americans. Many scientists we spoke with disagree.

Lasers are everywhere. Whether for barcode scanners, hair removal treatments or fiber-optic internet connections, these beams of light power our everyday lives. Their history dates back to Einstein’s ...

Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. The policy prevents ...

I’m here because of science, from the antibiotics that stopped my childhood illnesses to the science teachers who set me on my path as a plant biologist. Science has historically been non-partisan, ...

I touched a microscope for the very first time thanks to my teacher lugging them into our classroom at Winter Park High School. Once I saw those delicate onion cells close up, I was hooked on biology.

Not long ago, I ran into a longtime Fleet Science Center member outside our Giant Dome theater. He had just seen a film about researchers behind the publicly funded James Webb Space Telescope. With ...

If you’ve ever been treated for a medical problem, used a cellphone or a computer, or been excited by robots exploring Mars or gene-editing therapy, then your life has been profoundly impacted by ...

Federally funded science is critical to discovering new treatments for disease. Just ask Melvin Mann, who was a 37-year-old Army major when doctors diagnosed him with an aggressive and deadly blood ...