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In recent years, the United States has faced rising concerns regarding climate change. Communities across the country have ...

U.S. science always suffers during government shutdowns. Funding lapses send government scientists home without pay. Federal ...

The Interior Department has resurrected an “open science” policy that echoes a much-criticized approach in place during the first Trump administration. In a new secretary’s order signed Aug. 29 but ...

The Trump administration is facing backlash after it put forward new guidelines for the use of science at federal agencies, with scientists and Democratic lawmakers suggesting the policies would roll ...

President Donald J. Trump’s latest actions will further upend the federal grantmaking process in the US, according to research advocacy organizations. An executive order issued Aug. 7 would give ...

Stephen Decina — who was recently named the inaugural executive director of climate science, policy, and action — discussed his goals and vision for his term in an interview with The Daily ...

Killer viruses. Artificial intelligence. Extreme weather. Microplastics. Mental health. These are just a few of the pressing issues on which governments need science to inform their policies. But the ...

Can science offer clear guidance when the ground beneath it is inherently unstable? This question lies at the heart of many modern policy debates, where data, algorithms, and statistical models ...

SOCORRO, NM - 1999: These 27 moveable antennas, known as the Very Large Array, take in radio signals, some extremely faint, from throughout the cosmos, 1999 near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is a ...

WASHINGTON — The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced today its 2025 cohort of Science Policy Fellows. Beginning Sept. 1, 2025, the 12 ...