The head of the US National Science Foundation, a $9 billion agency charged with advancing discoveries across the scientific ...

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Science is capital. By some measures, every dollar spent on research returns at least $5 to the economy.

Hundreds of university researchers in the U.S. have had their National Science Foundation funding abruptly canceled to comply ...

Crystal Johnson, the assistant secretary for environmental justice in Massachusetts, gave a keynote address on the potential ...

NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan’s departure comes amid sweeping cuts to the federal workforce and agency grants.

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new ...

Societal challenges, from climate change to public health crises to advancements in artificial intelligence, have been ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

Telltale signs of chatbot use are scattered through the scholarly literature — and, in some cases, have disappeared without a ...

The grant supported Dr. Fiesler’s research on building A.I. literacy. She received no official explanation for why the grant ...

As children get older, their understanding of science and being a scientist changes. The words adults use are a critical part ...