Scientists rally in DC against Trump’s cuts to research

This ‘Science’ Rally Took A Hard Left Turn. We Were There.

Last Friday we attended a “Stand up for Science” rally in Seattle, Washington. Given that we both have science PhDs, have spent years doing research, and think science is a great tool for investigating the world, we were hopeful we’d find something to agree with. It wasn’t easy. The rally was part of a national ...

US science funding was a bipartisan priority. Now it’s a target of federal cuts.

The Trump administration aims to overhaul publicly funded science. Critics say cuts could undermine U.S. leadership that has fueled significant advancements.

In Boston, in mid-February, the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was held. There has been talk of the many threats that man and the planet face: from global warming to the uncontrolled progress of artificial intelligence to new epidemics. But we have discussed, often behind closed doors and in confidential meetings, the threats that science and scientists are suffering in the United States, at the behest …

Terms such as "climate research", "LGBT" and "women" in government documents should be evaluated or deleted, the office of the chief scientist of the Nasa is stamped

Trump’s cuts threaten key NSF undergrad research program

For decades, Research Experience for Undergraduates has been a golden ticket for students, funding summer research projects at top institutions. Now, at least a dozen are canceled. Saren Springer researches when and how embryos develop their arms and legs. But she didn’t always know she would be a researcher. Growing up in rural Minnesota and studying at a small liberal arts college with few labs on campus, her first exposure to research was wat…

After federal research funding cuts, about 300 stand up for science on Oval

About 300 people assembled in front of the University of Montana's Main Hall on Friday to protest the Trump administration's recent indiscriminate slashing of government science and federal university funding.