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While government science funding in the U.S. is stagnant, America’s main scientific rivals are rising fast. Federal R&D funding as a percentage of GDP has dropped from 1.2% in 1987 to 1% in 2010 ...
A Senate spending bill would restore funding for dozens of NASA science missions threatened with cancellation in the ...
Experts decried potential rescissions of funding for science agencies as well as cuts to government researchers and grants.
Every year since 1991, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration has offered competitive grants to a small number of ...
Teachers need ongoing assistance to make difficult shifts in teaching reading. Some districts had counted on the withheld ...
The White House’s new AI Action Plan would block federal dollars from states that impose heavy‑handed rules on artificial ...
Within a few years, I was running a bustling lab with support from both the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the National ...
To get funding today, scientists must show that their research will advance the goals of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). These terms connote lofty goals, but a close look at what is ...
As a high schooler attending Owasso Public Schools, I got the full Oklahoma high school football experience, which led me to ...
There’s a lesson for scientists in the success of the school-choice movement.
This is a rather cheeky point being made by Matt Ridley, that government funding of science and research doesn't in fact find very much. And given that it doesn't in fact find very much it also ...