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After the White House called for billions of dollars in funding reductions, senators and representatives are rescinding the ...

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Republicans and Democrats agree that it’s important the U.S. is a world leader in science, but sharply diverge on how the U.S ...

A new report finds that a majority of Americans think the U.S. should be a world leader in science, but Democrats ...

Democrats continue to be more likely than Republicans to say science has had a mostly positive effect on society.

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Patient advocacy groups also campaigned to restore funding. United for Cures, a network of groups, organised a vast ...

Ray Jayawardhana, the incoming president, is an astrophysicist, but leaders at the California Institute of Technology also ...

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 ...

SOCORRO, NM - 1999: These 27 moveable antennas, known as the Very Large Array, take in radio signals, some extremely faint, from throughout the cosmos, 1999 near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is a ...