For decades, the federal government supported basic scientific research. The Trump administration is trying to change that.

It's no exaggeration to say that federal funding for academic research has been foundational to much of modern life, from the smartphones in our pockets to the medicines in our cabinets. Google, GPS, ...

Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon. Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to ...

On a typical weekday, David Gruskin, VP&S ’27, can be found working with mouse models in Joseph Gogos Lab at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. But one Thursday in September, Gruskin, a ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. On paper, little appears to have changed for UMass Chan Medical ...

An illustration shows three scientists in lab coats kneeling, pushing up against a molecular model looming over them. The atom they are pushing on is red and is connected to an orange ball that ...

The recent announcement of a $7.4 billion bankruptcy settlement over Purdue Pharma’s role in the US opioid crisis stands as a reminder of the pernicious influence the private, for-profit sector can ...