Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. For most of Mary Woolley’s career, science and politics have existed harmoniously. On only a few ...

Federally funded science is critical to discovering new treatments for disease. Just ask Melvin Mann, who was a 37-year-old Army major when doctors diagnosed him with an aggressive and deadly blood ...

The impact of scientific research extends far beyond the laboratory. Breakthroughs like insulin and innovations like the internet have transformed our everyday lives. They also influence policymaking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. National Institutes of Health indirect costs, which are under the knife, go toward managing laboratories and facilities. Fei ...

The slowed pace of grants by the National Science Foundation, under attack from the White House, could put the United States ...

I’m here because of science, from the antibiotics that stopped my childhood illnesses to the science teachers who set me on my path as a plant biologist. Science has historically been non-partisan, ...

Cuts to science funding threaten life expectancy, our economic and job growth, and our work opportunities. Last week the government cut “indirect costs” to universities and medical centers, which ...

I touched a microscope for the very first time thanks to my teacher lugging them into our classroom at Winter Park High School. Once I saw those delicate onion cells close up, I was hooked on biology.

Not long ago, I ran into a longtime Fleet Science Center member outside our Giant Dome theater. He had just seen a film about researchers behind the publicly funded James Webb Space Telescope. With ...

People’s brains change when they become parents. She studies father’s brains in particular, to understand which changes underlie might better parenting. And she wants to study a variety of brains. “If ...

After two years of layoffs and funding pullbacks, South San Francisco’s life science industry is showing stronger signs of a comeback— though more mega-rounds and less early-stage funding could ...