The Trump administration has proposed and implemented substantial cuts to scientific research funding, which are expected to impact scientific progress profoundly. The administration has proposed ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making some of its staffers relocate and reassigning an even larger share of ...

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 ...

Amid a renaissance in the science of psychedelics, public interest in psilocybin — or magic mushrooms, as they’ve long been ...

Though leaders at the National Institutes of Health say they intend to allocate all the federally assigned dollars, changes ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

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. Even in this starkly divided country, Americans can agree on one ...

Federal officials are raising long-standing concerns with research journals and the academic incentive structures propping them up. But experts say the government alone can’t overhaul the industry.

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...

The publishing of subpar or bogus academic papers is on the rise. Increasing numbers of sleuths are dedicated to exposing this fraud. Some sleuths want to organize, while others prize their ...

When a group of researchers at Northwestern University uncovered evidence of widespread—and growing—research fraud in scientific publishing, editors at some academic journals weren’t exactly rushing ...

Contestants for the University of Chicago's Art in Science competition began entering artistic submissions from their ...