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A US House stopgap spending deal includes a provision that blocks the Office of Management and Budget from implementing rules to give political appointees control over science grants, which is a relief for the scientific community.
The Trump administration launches the $5 billion Genesis Mission grants for AI-driven science projects, signaling a politicized shift in US research priorities that critics warn could undermine long-standing scientific norms.
The article warns that the Trump administration's proposed rule changes to federal grant-making could politicize and undermine the decentralized U.S. science funding system, drawing strong criticism from AAAS and other commentators.
Anastasia Gamick, president and co-founder of Convergent Research, discusses how to identify and prioritize high-impact scientific research using the Focused Research Organization (FRO) model, which applies startup principles to R&D projects that are too engineering-heavy for academia and too public-good for industry.
The article reports on a Scientific American special section featuring MIT faculty who advocate for curiosity-driven science as a key driver of America's success and call for sustained public investment in research.
The article examines how a pending National Academies report on climate attribution is drawing political fire from Republican politicians and fossil fuel interests, threatening the organization's historical ability to remain above partisan conflict.
The NSF's decommissioning of Ocean Station Papa, a key ocean monitoring network, will leave Alaskans with reduced weather forecasting capabilities and increased vulnerability for coastal communities.
A proposed policy change could require political appointee sign-off for all federal research grants, threatening merit-based funding decisions.
Peter Hotez criticizes the erosion of support for U.S. research universities, citing MIT's 20% reduction in graduate students as a threat to the next generation of scientists.