The Trump administration has proposed and implemented substantial cuts to scientific research funding, which are expected to impact scientific progress profoundly. The administration has proposed ...

At a congressional hearing Wednesday, witnesses defended the scientific publishing industry while blasting the Trump ...

Federal officials are raising long-standing concerns with research journals and the academic incentive structures propping them up. But experts say the government alone can’t overhaul the industry.

Basic scientific research is a key contributor to economic productivity. Is science running out of steam? A growing body of research suggests that disruptive breakthroughs—the kind that fundamentally ...

The problematic use of guest editors was spotlighted last week when a genetics journal retracted nearly an entire special ...

The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on ...

An expert committee under the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information will conduct a study that examines current efforts to develop advanced and automated workflows for scientific ...

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. Even in this starkly divided country, Americans can agree on one ...

The publishing of subpar or bogus academic papers is on the rise. Increasing numbers of sleuths are dedicated to exposing this fraud. Some sleuths want to organize, while others prize their ...

Improved methods for social and behavioral sciences research could help enhance public trust in science, says a new study ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making some of its staffers relocate and reassigning an even larger share of ...

Amid a renaissance in the science of psychedelics, public interest in psilocybin — or magic mushrooms, as they’ve long been ...