European universities have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.
When most Americans think about our great universities, they probably don’t think about the origins of lasers, FM radio or bar codes; they don’t think about...
The Department of Homeland Security said the academic was denied entry because he had “confidential” data from an American lab, not because of his views on...
A French scientist was prevented from entering the United States this month because of an opinion he expressed about the Trump administration’s policies on academic research,...
In the early 1990s, Katalin Karikó was obsessed with an idea most of her fellow scientists dismissed: Could messenger RNA, or mRNA, a genetic molecule that...
Dozens of medical and scientific studies are ending or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding.
Since scientists first began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of...
The National Institutes of Health is the United States’ primary medical research agency. It is renowned worldwide for funding and leading science that has transformed the...
I’ve spent over five decades as a scientist in academia and the federal government, including as director of the National Institutes of Health. Never before have...
The No. 2 official at the National Institutes of Health abruptly resigned and retired from government service on Tuesday, in another sign that the Trump administration...