Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. The National Science Foundation announces Friday that it is launching one of the most ...

Rep. Deborah Ross, D-N.C., was one of more than fifty members of Congress that students spoke to about their concerns over federal funding for science. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images ...

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science. By Aatish Bhatia, Amy Fan, Jonah Smith and Irena Hwang In the past decade, the National Institutes of Health ...

Funding organizations can fix the science publishing system—which currently puts profit first and science second—according to research published on the arXiv preprint server. The new paper says the ...

Federal funding for scientific research is crucial for innovation and has supported major breakthroughs in Tennessee. Research at institutions like Vanderbilt and Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Emory is the data editor at STAT. He’s a data journalist with a ...

WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled Senate voted Thursday to reject health care bills offered by each party, as the U.S. barrels toward a cliff with steep premium hikes for millions of Americans ...

Both plans will likely fail in the Senate later this week. With the deadline to address expiring enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits fast approaching, Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced ...

Lasers are everywhere. Whether for barcode scanners, hair removal treatments or fiber-optic internet connections, these beams of light power our everyday lives. Their history dates back to Einstein’s ...

When the recent US federal government shutdown ended, some sectors quickly resumed normal operations. But for scientific research, the effects continue to unfold long after the government reopened its ...

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