These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque ...

Last August, the Trump administration issued an executive order intended to fundamentally alter how grant funding is handled by the US government. Under the system that had made the US a scientific ...

The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could ...

A new kind of institutional vandalism appeared last month in the form of a 412-page Trump administration regulatory proposal ...

As a university researcher focused on education, I have spent hundreds of hours designing studies to help the field and that ...

Last fall, I was working with a student to analyze some data from an experiment we had previously conducted in my lab. The ideas we were testing were pretty cool, but I could never find time to ...

Ethylene oxide was once considered an unremarkable pollutant. The colorless gas seeped from relatively few industrial facilities and commanded little public attention. All that changed in 2016, when ...