Congressional appropriators mostly ignored the Trump administration’s requests to slash budgets at several science and data agencies in a package of fiscal year 2026 bills released this week. While ...
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 ...
In 2025, more than 3,800 research grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation were terminated or frozen as part of the Trump administration’s effort to realign ...
Some federal contractors are feeling the squeeze after the president slashed support for climate programs and other research efforts. Melinda Holland started last year with high hopes for her business ...
About a year ago, it seemed the sky was falling for American scientific research. The Trump administration last February cut thousands of workers at federal science agencies, squeezed the flow of ...
Raising capital while still building the data needed to validate an idea is often one of the biggest hurdles for start-ups.
“AFRAID OF their own shadow. Afraid of their own president. And unable to even squeak,“ is how Senator Rand Paul recently described his fellow Republicans in Congress. The party caucus’s reputation ...
Which political party provides more federal funding for science? Given climate-denial rhetoric, attacks on expertise, the size of government, and culture-war battles over research, many Americans may ...