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The Caribbean Division, the last of AAAS’ remaining regional divisions, will sunset this year. Its leadership, however, will ...

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AAAS has launched the Pathways to Policy Fellowship, its third immersive fellowship program, and recently welcomed its first ...

The FY 2018 budget proposal is undoubtedly a difficult one for R&D. But is it an historically difficult one? In a word: yes. In fact, there’s a strong argument to be made that the first Trump ...

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This week the book is closing on the Trump Administration, but we're also at the end of another era: the era of the Budget Control Act. Adopted in 2011, the Budget Control Act (BCA) established a ...

In the hunt for a remedy, when the baton is passed from dedicated academic scientists to an innovative company to trusted community advocates, outcomes for society can be especially powerful. Today, ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science has awarded the distinction of Fellow to 396 of its members for 2017 in recognition of their contributions to science and technology, scientific ...