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 ...

Clara Herrera, a Tetrad student in the department of Biochemistry, works in the Engel Lab at UCSF in March 2020. The Tetrad Graduate Program is supported by the Discovery Fellows program. Photo by ...

In recent debates about government funding, certain quirky-sounding research projects — like studying shrimp on treadmills — have grabbed headlines and become easy targets for criticism. Politicians ...

Bruce J. MacFadden has received funding from the U. S. National Science Foundation. It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants ...

The pandemic has rolled back decades of economic progress and wrought havoc on public finances. To build back better and fight climate change, sizable public investment needs to be sustainably ...