With President Donald Trump labeling the media “the enemy” and threatening broadcast licenses and political enemies, First Amendment scholars are asking:  Is the First Amendment under more ...

The Trump administration has demanded that states turn over data on individual SNAP recipients including Social Security numbers, dates of birth and immigration status as part of its effort to root ...

Amid enormous shifts, many scientists pushed back and risked dismissal from their jobs even as federal agencies fired ...

The SeattleStatGROWS program (Statistical Growing Research Opportunities for Undergraduates in Washington State) is a Fred ...

The co-founder of SCIMaP looks at the year of NIH cuts — and what they say about the future of American research.

WASHINGTON, DC — Jay Bhattacharya’s vow to welcome scientific dissent is under pressure just months into his tenure as director of the National Institutes of Health. At his Senate confirmation hearing ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health is seeking to fill nearly half of its top roles at breakneck speed following a wave of ...

The NSF memo says the government shutdown, which ended in November, hampered its progress toward doling out all its funding ...

This is How I Got Here, a series where we chart the career journeys of technologists. Want to tell your story? Get in touch. Alejandro Alvarez-Prats moved to the US from Spain in 2011 to work as a ...

Multiple researchers and administrators who spoke to WSN on the condition of anonymity in an effort to protect their work ...

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 ...

A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there”: Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave ...