Politics

The Trump administration’s plans to cut NASA’s science missions will destroy the U.S. space legacy

Elon Musk funded an XPrize for carbon removal, but his actions in the Trump administration have cut funding for climate research

From public health to space exploration, advisory panels have helped U.S. agencies make smarter decisions. The Trump administration wants to kill them

President Trump has ordered agencies to act “urgently” to curb asthma—a goal at odds with moves to roll back air pollution limits and with RFK, Jr., cutting CDC experts

The Trump administration is freezing, delaying and revoking funding for dementia research, setting back discoveries of potential future treatments

The National Science Foundation, which funds key science and engineering research, is the latest U.S. agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE

I was fired from my job as a scientist at the only federal agency dedicated to the science of workplace safety. The Trump administration’s cuts put the U.S. workforce in danger

Similar to other professions, science has organizations that represent scientists and the research they do. Too many are staying silent as Trump dismantles research

President Trump’s efforts to dismantle climate policies won’t stop renewables from rising or fossil fuels from slowing, according to outlooks from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and BloombergNEF

Leaked budget documents indicate that key NASA and NOAA research projects, such as crucial climate research and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, are at risk of being defunded in 2026

Spillover from the politicization of the COVID pandemic has eroded vaccine confidence, but everyday people can play a role in building it back up

The Trump administration has frozen billions in funding to the world’s richest university after Harvard refused to acquiesce to its demands