August 6, 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima on orders from U.S. President Harry Truman, who had ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The National Science Foundation can continue to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars from researchers in ...

Despite the policy successes, the foundation’s National Science Board estimated in 2020 that full participation by underrepresented groups will not be reached until 2030: “the number of women must ...

The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up, with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.

Since then, the foundation has become the leading funder of basic research in the United States. NSF's mandate, then as now, was to support basic research and spread funding for science across all ...

Attorney General Letitia James co-led a lawsuit with 15 other states to halt the administration from dismantling programs at the National Science Foundation, one of the largest supporters of ...

Scientific research in the United States is under attack. In some ways, science is an easy mark in a country that is ...

WASHINGTON – Approximately 700 scientific research projects funded through the National Science Foundation were canceled on April 25 amid scrutiny from President Donald Trump's Department of ...

The National Science Foundation, established in 1950, finances much of the scientific research that takes place in the United States, ranging from astronomy and quantum computing to microbiology ...

Unless Congress intervenes and adequately funds science and technology, we are risking strategic failure, argues former Air Force secretary Frank Kendall.

In 1950, Congress set up the US National Science Foundation to fund all basic science in the United States (except for life sciences, a role that the US National Institutes of Health would assume).

Since then, the foundation has become the leading funder of basic research in the United States. NSF’s mandate, then as now, was to support basic research and spread funding for science across ...