As the U.S. Exits Foreign Aid, Who Will Fill the Gap?
China could reap the soft-power advantage, but like Western governments, the country is cutting back on aid. Philanthropies ...
Scientists warn of long-term damage as Trump’s orders slow research
By blocking announcements in the Federal Register, the administration is keeping experts from meeting to evaluate funding ...
Perplexing chunks of ice sometimes fall from the sky. Scientists want to learn more.
Hail will finally get the attention it deserves this spring, with the world's largest field campaign ever devoted to studying ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education1d
The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation
It wasn’t until the 1950 establishment of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the largest funding source for basic ...
US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says
National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in ...
CounterPunch2d
Empowering Bias: Trump Truth vs. Science
It is true that science is embedded within human culture and therefore will carry some expression of human bias. However, ...
The Register on MSN2d
National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future
Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more Feature With the National Science ...
Nature3d
Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
The overhaul of US science kicked off within hours of Trump’s inauguration on 20 January, when he signed dozens of executive ...
National Science Foundation cuts 10 percent of staff
Nearly 170 employees at the National Science Foundation (NSF) who were still on probation were fired by the Trump ...
Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US technological competitiveness
The jury’s out on whether the US is still at the top of global science. Proposed cuts to major agencies could mean completely ...
Politico18d
Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
One of the United States’ leading funders of science ... and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday. The comments by Assistant ...